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.

Despite concerns and frustrations around unanticipated costs for the town’s fire station repairs, Edgecomb residents ultimately approved the use of $81,000 in tax increment financing funds for the project in a 10-7 vote during a special town meeting Wednesday, July 2.

Damariscotta Police Chief Jason Warlick will resign from the role effective Friday, Aug. 1 to become the chief deputy of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office.

Jefferson resident Danielle Pierce is stepping into a role the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Lincoln County Board of Commissioners have said is urgently needed countywide.

Residents of Bremen discussed the future purchase of a new fire truck, charitable donations to nonprofits and the Bremen Library, and work planned for town roads and bridges at their annual town meeting on Saturday, June 28.

A newly completed addition at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay represents a renewed commitment to discovery despite mounting challenges to science in the U.S., laboratory President, CEO, and Senior Research Scientist Deborah Bronk said.

In the wake of Jefferson voters’ rejection of an initial education budget for the 2025-2026 school year at the polls in June, they will consider another, higher proposal from the school committee on Wednesday, July 9.