Damariscotta residents got their first look at a proposal to build Dollar General and Sherwin-Williams stores at the corner of Main Street and Biscay Road during the Damariscotta Planning Board’s meeting Monday, Feb. 6.

Stepping Stone Housing Inc. Executive Director Marilee Harris updated the Damariscotta Planning Board on Monday, Feb. 6 about the nonprofit’s progress toward completion of four items the board had requested before it votes on Stepping Stone’s application for the development of the Blue Haven property. Harris also provided an application the nonprofit will use to screen potential tenants.

Two new Waldoboro residents are revitalizing a 40-acre farm overlooking the Medomak River off Friendship Road in Waldoboro.

Coastal Kids Preschool in Damariscotta recently received accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, making the school a Maine Roads to Quality level-four program, the highest designation offered by the state’s early care and education professional network.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory in advance of a blustery storm forecast to bring snow, sleet and freezing rain to Lincoln County beginning in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

When the polls closed for January’s #LCNme365 photo contest Monday, Jan. 30, Robert “Bob” Kausch had secured victory with his photograph of the Milky Way above the bell tower at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park by 13 votes.