With funds from a state grant, the new Boothbay Region Peer Center offers support to people in recovery from addiction and others in the community.

The family behind Thirty Acre Farm, of Whitefield, hopes to buy a property on Route 32 in Bremen, transform the property into its headquarters, and ensure it remains farmland forever.

Downtown Damariscotta business owners and members of the public attended a community conversation on upcoming improvements to the waterfront and municipal parking lot at Great Salt Bay Community School on Thursday, Jan. 17.

After nearly 17 years and eight town managers, John O’Connell is coming back to Wiscasset to serve as interim town manager.

A Woolwich woman who currently works as an associate planner for the town of Old Orchard Beach will become Lincoln County’s first new county planner in more than 20 years. 

“When I left Mumbai 23 years ago, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that Boothbay, Maine would one day be my home, my happy place, my creative muse,” writes Cherie Scott in her blog “Mumbai to Maine.”

Westport Island Fire Chief Stacey Hutchison will mark a year on the job Feb. 1.

The new owner of 51 Water St. in Wiscasset – a downtown commercial building with six storefronts – hopes to attract a “craft beer/oyster bar” and a coffee roaster to fill two vacancies.

Midcoast CoWork LLC, a coworking space currently in an office above Weatherbird Shops at 72 Courtyard St., Suite 4 in Damariscotta, hopes to expand into a larger space downtown.

As a reporter, my interactions with law enforcement officers tend to be accompanied by flashing lights and the urgency of an emergency scene. On Thursday, Jan. 10, I was able to ride along with two Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies for a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to be on patrol even when the scanner is relatively quiet.