Officer Erick Halpin, of the Damariscotta Police Department, helped save the life of a man who had overdosed by using two doses of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan before paramedics arrived the afternoon of Friday, June 2.

Route 1 and Route 27 in Edgecomb could become a “Florida T” intersection. The Maine Department of Transportation is in the preliminary engineering phase of a redesign of the intersection. DOT Project Manager Ernie Martin attended the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen’s Monday, June 5 meeting to walk the public through the department’s plans.

Three print and broadcast journalists discussed “fake news” – what it means, how to identify it, and how their organizations deal with it – during a community conservation in front of more than 50 people at Mobius Inc. in Damariscotta on Wednesday, May 24.

The five candidates for two seats on the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen weighed in on several issues before the town during a candidates night at the town office Tuesday, May 30.

Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets launched four years ago as a walking tour of the town’s heritage with panels at 29 stops detailing historic locations in the village. Visitors can now take the tour from a car, or even a couch, with a new app, said Ed Kavanagh, chair of Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets Committee.

A high-altitude balloon carrying the experiments of students from Jefferson Village School and Bristol Consolidated School was launched near the JVS playground the morning of Wednesday, May 24.

There is tremendous activism to elect representatives who stand for less government, lower taxes, and civil liberties during election season, “but then we tend to walk away and hope for the best,” said Mike Quatrano, director of civic engagement at the Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank.