At the polls this November, Waldoboro voters will consider more than presidential candidates, as they will also weigh a potential food sovereignty ordinance. The Waldoboro Select Board voted unanimously to add the ordinance to the November warrant during its meeting on Tuesday, May 28.

Damariscotta River Cruises in Damariscotta is celebrating its 10th full season of riparian voyages in the Twin Villages. Business and life partners Chip Holmes and Olga Oros have been operating their tour boat service from the dock at Schooner Landing Restaurant and Marina in Damariscotta full time since 2014.

Damariscotta multimedia artist and educator Andrea Parker believes that creativity is at the heart of all things. But until recently, Parker said, she felt that the Twin Villages lacked a central hub where creatives and makers could unite to work and learn in community.

The Nobleboro Select Board named Lt. Kevin Rawley chief of the Nobleboro Fire Department, effective immediately, during a meeting the evening of Wednesday, May 22.

Following a review of town ordinances and planning board procedures, the Dresden Board of Appeals voted to grant the appeal of a conditional use permit issued by the Dresden Planning Board in January.

Following months of discussion and research, the Whitefield Planning Board voted to approve a conditional use permit for a residential substance abuse treatment facility in Coopers Mills during a meeting the evening of Wednesday, May 15.

At a nearly five-hour meeting on the evening of Thursday, May 16, the RSU 40 Board of Directors passed a motion to delete the district’s transgender and gender expansive students policy, the first of two votes that would be needed to remove the policy.

Edgecomb residents packed into the town hall for their annual town meeting Saturday, May 18, working their way through a 66-article warrant in slightly under four hours. In the end, almost every article passed as written, however, public comments made it clear Edgecomb residents were feeling the financial pain.

The AOS 93 Board voted unanimously during a meeting the evening of Tuesday, May 14 to hire a new superintendent.

A Waldoboro man who ran for state Senate in 2022 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capital.

“Bullying isn’t cool – it’s cruel,” read a series of colorful posters drawn by RSU 12 elementary school students and displayed in the Chelsea Elementary School cafeteria on the evening of Thursday, May 9.

During a ceremony on Thursday, May 9 in the Hall of Flags at the Maine Capitol, Wiscasset Elementary School teacher Becky Hallowell was named Lincoln County Teacher of the Year.

The harbor ordinance in South Bristol, established in 1988, only slightly predates Cecil Burnham’s involvement with the town’s harbor management, which began in 1990. After 35 years, however, Burnham retired from the position at the age of 82.

In a crowded Lincoln Academy gymnasium on the evening of Monday, May 13, Newcastle residents voted 71-8 to approve a moratorium on firearm sales permits.