Nearly a dozen people attended a ceremony at the Edgecomb Post Office on Friday, April 21 to witness the swearing in of Postmaster Bruce Hartford. The promotion feels “like the culmination” of a nearly two-decade-long career in the Postal Service, Hartford said.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen has canceled a public hearing scheduled to discuss the removal of members of the Wiscasset Historic Preservation Commission, but has instead begun the process to repeal the historic preservation ordinance that established the commission.

Wiscasset’s sixth-grade class will not move from Wiscasset Elementary School to Wiscasset Middle High School in 2017-2018, but a committee will form to plan the move for the following school year. The Wiscasset School Committee established the committee Thursday, April 27.

The Wiscasset School Department’s 2017-2018 budget is a 5.09 percent increase from the current year, but local taxpayers’ share of the budget will not go up, school officials said. The Wiscasset School Committee approved the $9.45 million budget in a 4-1 vote Thursday, April 27.

By 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, a small crowd had gathered near the flagpole at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The occasion was the celebration of the recent completion of a Wabanaki birchbark canoe in the school’s Cable-Burns Applied Technology and Engineering Center, a project that was led by Wellington master canoe-builder Steve Cayard.

After the town attorney found the board’s first vote on the project to be insufficient, the Damariscotta Planning Board voted again to approve a developer’s proposal to build a Dollar General store and a Sherwin-Williams store at the intersection of Main Street and Biscay Road.

The Damariscotta Planning Board voted unanimously to approve the CLC YMCA’s plans for phase one of its expansion during the board’s meeting Monday, May 1.

The Maine Senate has confirmed longtime District Attorney Geoff Rushlau as a District Court judge, and Gov. Paul R. LePage has appointed Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Liberman to succeed Rushlau as DA.

The Lincoln County Fire Academy’s biggest class of new firefighters in recent years completed training Saturday, April 22. Thirty-three firefighters took turns battling a mock structure fire at the Gordon Merry Training Facility in Wiscasset – the final step toward obtaining the certification necessary to enter burning buildings.