Questions centered on a proposed food sovereignty ordinance and updates to the town office during a public hearing held on Monday, April 7, to discuss the warrant for Jefferson’s upcoming town meeting by referendum.

The sleet had stopped and the mood was festive by the time the neighbors on Lewis Point Road in Damariscotta convened for their weekly get-together Saturday, March 29.

During the same meeting during which they approved the reconstruction of a downtown parking lot, Damariscotta Planning Board members also heard a proposal for a park at the end of Vine Street.

With assistance from partners like Coastal Kids Preschool in Damariscotta and Help Me Grow Maine, a local group is seeking to support Nobleboro families preparing their children to enter kindergarten healthy, thriving, and ready to learn.

RSU 40 Superintendent Steve Nolan, who has been with the district for more than a decade, will leave this summer.

Over three hours, Alna residents worked through a 51-article warrant, approving the purchase of a $740,000 pumper-tanker fire truck, the donation of property in the town’s historic Head Tide district, and a $1.3 million municipal budget during the town’s annual meeting on Saturday, March 29.

A search for a local man wanted in Massachusetts resulted in the arrests of three fugitives from justice and the seizure of drugs and paraphernalia at a private residence in Waldoboro Wednesday, April 2.

Directors of Lincoln County libraries called for community support in the face of an executive order from the White House they said would be “catastrophic” to their operations.

A physical altercation during the first annual meeting of the Somerville Budget Committee Tuesday, March 25 resulted in misdemeanor charges for two town officials.

Although the Wiscasset School Committee did not come to a unanimous agreement to adopt a $10.8 million budget, voters will gather to consider the 3.06% rise in the education budget at a special meeting in April.

When it comes to solving tough problems, just getting started is the most important part, according to sixth grade Jefferson Village School mathlete Jonathan Bernier.

Next year’s class of Waldoboro sixth grade students will receive their education at Medomak Middle School, rather than Miller School, in a bid to create space at the overcrowded building.