After an unsuccessful application for a grant to help finance improvements to the Bristol Mills fish ladder, the Bristol Board of Selectmen met Aug. 24 to discuss alternatives to the project, including the possibility of removing the Bristol Mills Dam.

In the past 50 years, Mark Johnston can count on one hand the number of times he has been absent from his seat at the organ of the Bunker Hill Baptist Church. He has been playing the 1888 pump organ for the church since 1967, when he was a freshman at Lincoln Academy.

In early August, a swarm of honeybees from Ray Shadis’ Edgecomb farm took off to find a new home. The swarm will not survive the winter without help, Shadis said.

Since it launched in 2008, Rockers in Recovery, a for-profit media and production company, has attracted tens of thousands to its music festivals and reached millions more through its online radio program. The message the organization is spreading through rock ‘n’ roll: there is hope, addiction recovery is possible.

In a unique partnership with the University of Maine at Orono, a Wiscasset Elementary School classroom will transform what literacy training looks like in Maine.

Members of the Alewife Harvesters of Maine from across Maine and New Hampshire traveled to Dresden for the organization’s annual pig roast on Saturday, Aug. 27.

For some students, the fear associated with Halloween is not having a costume to wear. Recognizing the anxiety this created in some of her students last year, Wiscasset Elementary School first-grade teacher Clara Brown is organizing a costume swap.

After almost twelve years of leasing farm land, the owners of Morning Dew Farm are ready to put down permanent roots with the purchase of a 68-acre property on Route 1 in Damariscotta that was nearly the site of a Wal-Mart.