One year after back-to-back storms devastated Lincoln County’s coastline, affected residents, businesses, and towns are still rebuilding and preparing for the future.

Somerville residents elected Kathryn Jennings to fill the third select board seat during a special election on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

After roughly eight years as the owner of Edgecomb’s Glidden Point Oyster Farms, Ryan McPherson is planning some changes to the property at 637 River Road.

Newly elected Commissioners David Levesque and Evan Goodkowsky joined William Blodgett in Wiscasset for the first Lincoln County Board of Commissioners meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

Sinking golden shovels into the dirt of a vacant Depot Street lot, representatives from the public and private sectors ceremonially began construction on a new MaineHealth medical arts facility in Waldoboro Monday, Jan. 6.

The Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit Central arrested a local man in connection to the body found in the Schmid Preserve in Edgecomb in December.

At the start of each year, the volume number on the front of this newspaper increases by one. With this edition we enter volume 150, celebrating the start of a sesquicentennial of publication.

Readers selected Kate Bryant, of Wiscasset, as the winner of the 2024 #LCNme365 photo contest with a picture of an English setter enjoying the final days of summer.

For six years, Stephanie McSherry brought a vision of creativity, literacy, and creative joy to life at Edgecomb’s Merry Barn. Though The Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat shut its doors for good at the end of 2024, McSherry hopes the impact of the literacy and arts center will persist throughout the creative community.

A car dealership familiar to those in Waldoboro is one step closer to making its way south to its new home in Wiscasset.

Voters from Bristol, Jefferson, Nobleboro, and South Bristol rejected a proposed $1.2 million AOS 93 central office budget for the 2026 fiscal year during a meeting the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 18.

It was about 20 degrees at Camden Hills State Park as, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 14, members of Medomak Valley High School’s outdoor club broke camp at the park’s ski shelter and set off into the woods for a second day of hiking.

Hundreds of readers submitted thousands of photos to The Lincoln County News’ photo contest in its eighth year. Now it is up to readers to decide which of the 12 finalists will win the 2024 #LCNme365 photo contest.