On Monday, Dec. 16, President Joe Biden declared the Frances Perkins Homestead in Newcastle a national monument.

A new comprehensive plan more than two years in the making was approved by Damariscotta residents during a special town meeting at Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Great Salt Bay Community School.

Damariscotta educator Daniel “Dan” Pinkham is being remembered by those that knew him as a caring teacher, coach, and friend committed to helping others.

The Nobleboro Fire Department swore in Matthew Kilpatrick as chief of the Nobleboro Fire Department, effective immediately, the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 5.

Hundreds of Lincoln County students, educators, and families are coming together to support Union Elementary School Principal Scott White and his family in the wake of the longtime educator’s diagnosis with a rare form of brain cancer.

Shaw’s Fish and Lobster Wharf in New Harbor is on the market.

The Maine State Police are investigating the homicide of a man found near Schmid Land Preserve in Edgecomb the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Wiscasset will allocate $353,750 from fund balance toward the relocation of the town’s wastewater treatment plant after voters approved the measure at a special town meeting Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Surprisingly for Dresden town officials, it was the article that would have authorized the select board to sell a fire truck that drew the most attention during a 40-minute special town meeting at Pownalborough Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

A flock of eight ducks on Jefferson’s Goose Hill Road are among the only representatives of their kind in the region, according to legacy poultry breeder Sarah Merrill, who is striving to keep their lineage alive.

The eighth annual Villages of Light festival brought Christmas trees, a holiday parade, and Santa Claus to Main Street Damariscotta and Newcastle on Saturday, Nov. 30.

Veterinarian Laurie Howarth, who founded Medomak Veterinary Services at her Waldoboro home in 1988, has retired after a nearly 50-year career in veterinary medicine.