Students at Great Salt Bay Community School now have the chance to learn how to build fires, tie knots, and pick up other wilderness and survival skills through a new elective offered by Assistant Principal Ira Michaud.

The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing at its Wednesday, Nov. 18 meeting to discuss an application for a liquor license from the incoming owner of the Maine Coast Book Shop and Café.

U.S. Marines and their families gathered at the Wells-Hussey American Legion Post in Damariscotta to celebrate the 240th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps Tuesday, Nov. 10.

A 44-year-old Jefferson man faces charges for allegedly choking a woman and punching a juvenile in the throat during separate incidents in the same week.

A key witness’s lack of credibility has forced the dismissal of all charges against a Waldoboro man accused of slashing police cruiser tires this summer.

Since the end of World War II, Howard Cederlund has traversed the North American continent and traveled internationally, oftentimes reuniting with his former shipmates aboard the USS Menard and their surviving family members. The Pacific region, however, is an area of the world he has no intention of returning to, he said.

Alexander Rancourt would like to announce the birth of his baby brother, Andrew James Rancourt.

The Columbia, a 90-foot fishing vessel which became a point of contention as it sat abandoned in Pemaquid Harbor for nearly two years, is drawing concern in its new home, Bremen’s Greenland Cove.

What started out as one summer of adventure in 2009 has turned into a passion for Jared Stailing. After graduating from Lincoln Academy in 2006, Stailing got a two-year fire science degree from Southern Maine Community College. He worked as an attendant with the Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service until he got the opportunity to go out west in May 2009 and fight forest fires.

Maine’s second member-owned solar farm cleared a hurdle on the way to obtaining town approval for the solar farm’s construction on Gardiner Road in Wiscasset Monday, Nov. 9.

Pippin, a 5-year-old teacup Yorkshire terrier, will make his stage debut in “The Wizard of Oz” this weekend. Pippin will play the role of Toto in Medomak Valley High School’s fall musical.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has announced the arrest of a 42-year-old Whitefield man on a felony charge of sexual exploitation of a minor.

William Rice, 93 years old, is a South Bristol native who grew up on and around the water. He went to South Bristol High School “for a couple of years” and dated Miss Gertrude Gamage.

Sophin Lang and Marcus Ryan Hughes, of Boothbay, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Zackary Ryan Lang Hughes.