Voters approved a warrant setting the pay of the full-time Edgecomb Fire Department chief position and establishing a new municipal fire department during a special town meeting Monday, July 1.

At the open portion of the Somerville annual town meeting on Saturday, June 22, Somerville residents approved all 23 warrant articles, including a municipal budget of $739,637 and protection of municipal broadband ownership.

Bremen voters dispatched with the town’s 58-article warrant over the course of two hours at the annual town meeting held in the afternoon of Saturday, June 22 at the Bremen fire station.

This summer, an administrative disruption will lead to a pause in interlibrary lending across Maine. How long it will last is still unclear, but the announcement has left Lincoln County library officials frustrated and patrons already feeling the impact.

Over the course of more five hours including occasional moments of fiery debate, Westport Island voters passed all but one article on their annual town meeting warrant Saturday, June 22.

Dresden voters approved every warrant article, including a $1.7 million municipal budget, during the town’s annual meeting the evening of Tuesday, June 18.

To hear Anne Marie D’Amico tell it, she slowly came around to the idea of teaching music for a living. Once she embraced it, however, she gave it everything she had.

Damariscotta residents voted to pass all but one article at the annual town meeting at Great Salt Bay Community School the morning of Saturday, June 15.

“Winnie the Pooh said it best when he talked to Piglet,” said Bonnie Merrill, a staff member of Central Lincoln County Adult & Community Education, to the school’s six graduates and those gathered to celebrate them. “And he said, ‘Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you know.’”

Midcoast Adult & Community Education honored three graduates at a ceremony in the Medomak Valley High School library Thursday, June 13.

Around 40 Newcastle residents voted to pass all articles, including the establishment of new severe storm reserve and perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances reserve accounts at the hour-long annual town meeting Monday, June 17 in the Lincoln Academy cafeteria.

Westport Islanders will take up the balance of a 70 article warrant when they re-convene their annual town meeting on Saturday, June 22.