The New Harbor United Methodist Church, at 8 Southside Road on New Harbor Hill, is restarting a capital campaign for a new bell tower and other improvements to the building.

The town of Jefferson is facing a more than 1,000% increase in the cost of Emergency Medical Services service next year.

New COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County residents dropped by nearly half this week—with 66 new cases identified, down from the record-setting total of 129 last week.

The 2021 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest got off to a smashing start when Edwin Pierpont, of Jefferson, beat his own state records for heaviest giant pumpkin and giant green squash at the festival’s weigh-off on Sunday, Oct. 3.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education published school staff vaccination rates from every public school across Maine, but Lincoln County superintendents suggest the numbers are not yet accurate. 

Readers selected Gabrielle Hutchings’ photo of the sun rising over the water as the winner of the September #LCNme365 photo contest.

Chief officers of Lincoln County’s four ambulance services met for the first time on Monday, Sept. 27, to formulate a plan for a regional approach to the staffing crisis that threatens the lives of residents in their communities. 

Damariscotta hopes to begin construction on the second phase of its $4 million-plus waterfront improvement project by fall 2022, and complete construction by spring 2023, said Jan Wiegman, an engineer with Wright-Pierce, during a community conversation at the Lincoln Theater on Tuesday, Sept. 28.

Mobius, Inc., held a small but heart-felt celebration to honor the recipients of the Stewardship, Community, and Exemplar awards, and to recognize team members’ length of service on Wednesday, Sept. 22.

A structural analysis of the A.D. Gray school building in Waldoboro found issues that will make it difficult to keep the building intact. Town manager Julie Keizer informed the board of selectmen of the findings during their meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 28.

LincolnHealth saw a dip in positive COVID-19 cases at its Respiratory Care Clinic on the Miles Campus in Damariscotta this week, a welcome sign after two weeks of record-breaking numbers.