South Bristol dedicated a new monument to its veterans with help from Maine’s first lady and state legislators at the town office Friday, July 17.

The 11&12 Little League baseball all-stars tournament kicked off at Clyde Sukeforth Field in Waldoboro Saturday, July 25, and on the field were the men who started it all. Twenty-one members of the four original teams that launched Little League Baseball in Waldoboro in 1952 were honored in the opening ceremony.

A sunny day in Edgecomb has new meaning due to a recently constructed solar farm on River Road. The solar farm, which is the second in Maine and the first to be member-owned, is ready to harvest energy from the sun to reduce the electric bills and greenhouse gas emissions of the Edgecomb Community Solar Farm Association’s nine members.

Though it can vary by geography, the resounding theme the Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry has heard from hay producers this year is the volume of the first hay crop is down, according to Matthew Randall, agricultural compliance supervisor for the department.

The Whitefield food pantry, located at St. Denis’ Hall, is open the first Friday of every month to freely give out fresh produce, breads, grains, canned goods, and other household staples.

Christina Belknap and Samuel Belknap III are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Henry Owen Belknap.

A Damariscotta woman and a Pemaquid woman were transported to LincolnHealth – Miles Campus with non-life-threatening injuries after a crash on Route 129 in South Bristol Wednesday afternoon, July 29.

Sawyer’s Way in Edgecomb, a homegrown family antique and salvage business, will soon open the first auction house on the Boothbay peninsula. The Edgecomb Planning Board approved Jeff and Jen Dowdy’s site plan review application for the construction of an accessory building adjacent to the Sawyer’s Way store on Route 27 at the board’s July 16 meeting.

Moving from Hope about six weeks ago, a relatively new business called Flame Grilling Products has set up shop on Winslow’s Mills Road in Waldoboro.

The Wiscasset Primary School and Mason Station will go on the market, Wiscasset selectmen decided at their Tuesday, July 21 meeting. Real estate agent Sherri Dunbar, of Dunham Realty, was instructed to aggressively pursue their sale.

Morgan Curtis was teaching Chewonki Semester School students about environmental issues during the 2014-2015 school year as Chewonki’s sustainability fellow. Now, Curtis and her partner, Garrett Blad, are traveling by bicycle on a slow journey to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015.

Developer Tony Casella’s proposal for a three-cottage development on Davis Island received unanimous approval from the Edgecomb Planning Board Thursday, July 2, ending a months-long process complicated by the confusion surrounding Davis Island’s sewer system.

“July is not only a season of the year; it is a season of mind and memory. Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada. The tang of ripe cherries and the sweetness of sunning hay belong to July … ” Hal Borland

A Chevrolet pickup truck traveling south on Route 27 swerved to avoid hitting an animal and instead hit a utility pole and a house shortly after 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 28.