A new era is unfolding at the storied Waldoboro Custom House.

With minimal discussion, Wiscasset voters passed a new education budget totaling $10,744,119 for the 2026 fiscal year during a special town meeting in the Wiscasset Elementary School gym on Wednesday, July 23.

Local and state officials gathered at 16 Mills Road on Tuesday, July 29 to celebrate the near-completion of a 16-unit affordable housing development after nine months of construction.

 David Hasenfus, who owns hundreds if not thousands of gem and mineral specimens, can’t choose a favorite among them.

Families who welcomed loved ones into the world at Damariscotta’s MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital gathered at Round Top Ice Cream on Sunday, July 20 to connect with other families and the medical professionals who were among the first people to meet their children.

 Jon Amirault, tax collector for the town of Somerville, has engaged a current and a former member of the Somerville Municipal Broadband Board in a lawsuit over the members’ alleged violation of the Maine Freedom of Access Act.

 With the town’s police chief set to depart Friday, Aug. 1, the Damariscotta Select Board took steps regarding the future of the police department, including appointing an interim chief and discussing the hiring process, during its Wednesday, July 16 meeting.

Posted weight limits on bridges at either end of a long stretch of Somerville Road have left upwards of 60 homes technically inaccessible to some firefighting vehicles.

The picnic party in the woods in Newcastle gets bigger every year, as ceramic artists and their supporters from all over the world descend on the usually quiet campus of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts for the annual Salad Days fundraiser.

Jefferson residents approved a new, higher education budget during a Tuesday, July 9 special town meeting after rejecting a previous version of the budget at the polls in June.

The Damariscotta Green project, which was proposed for a 1.6-acre lot at 0 Vine Street, has been paused indefinitely.

This year’s April showers brought May flowers and a poor alewife yield in Lincoln County.

Like a phoenix, a beloved Damariscotta restaurant rose from the ashes over the Fourth of July weekend.