The Regional School Unit 40 Board of Directors and the Medomak Valley Education Association – the collective bargaining unit for teachers in RSU 40 – have both unanimously approved a new three-year contract for the district’s teachers.

The residents of 14 Cronk’s Lane in Wiscasset are currently without a home following a Saturday, June 13 structure fire.

Wiscasset voted to keep its school resource officer and elected William David Cherry and Judy Flanagan to the Board of Selectmen at the referendum annual town meeting Tuesday, June 9.

Damariscotta voters approved the town’s 2015-2016 secondary education budget during a second special town meeting for the purpose in the Great Salt Bay Community School cafeteria Thursday evening, May 28.

A “dangerous and calculating sexual predator” with a history of sex crimes dating back to the early 1970s will return to prison for 13 years.

Mediation over the Department of Environmental Protection’s water level order for Clary Lake came to a close approximately one month ago with mediator John C. Sheldon calling further mediation “futile.”

The Whitefield Elementary School gym opened to the public Monday, June 8 after months of renovations following the second light fixture fire to break out in the gym in one year. A light fixture in the school’s gym overheated in March, melting the plastic diffuser covering it, which dripped onto the gym floor, igniting it in the same manner of a March 2014 gym fire.

Work quietly began on Lincoln Academy’s new artificial turf field June 5. The 80,000 square foot field is being constructed where the baseball field was formerly located. The field is expected to be finished by mid-August, just in time for the fall soccer and field hockey seasons.

Newcastle voters approved changes to the design review ordinance by one vote during annual town meeting in the Lincoln Academy dining commons Monday, June 15.

Three men from Manchester, N.H. are facing charges related to an alleged armed home invasion in Waldoboro in March, two of whom have been arrested while the other remains at large, according to Waldoboro Police Chief Bill Labombarde.

Wiscasset’s school resource officer and two non-binding opinion polls on discontinuing the Wiscasset Police Department and the Wiscasset Emergency Medical Services are among the 55 warrant articles to be voted on at Wiscasset’s referendum town meeting Tuesday, June 9.

A Dresden woman escaped serious injury after she fell asleep at the wheel on Route 1 in Newcastle and her SUV climbed an embankment and rolled off Tuesday, June 23.

Not long before his death Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music’.”

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Dresden Adopts Comprehensive Plan, Passes Budget

Newcastle Design Review Changes Pass By One Vote

Somerville Passes Proposed Budget at Town Meeting

Damariscotta Keeps Interlocal Agreements Alive

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