Mike Tatro, of Friendship, has joined the Gamage Shipyard as general manager, replacing Steve Morris, who has managed the yard since 2005 and will retire in June.

At the annual education budget meeting this year, Jefferson voters will be asked to approve fixes for some shortfalls in the current budget and approve a proposed 2015-2016 budget which would increase the local share by $487,675 or 14.64 percent.

Updated May 7 11:41 a.m.

A fire that broke out on the deck of 450 Townhouse Road Wednesday evening, May 6, was quickly extinguished.

Bremen, Damariscotta, and Newcastle voters approved the 2015-2016 Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District budget during the district’s annual budget meeting in Damariscotta May 13.

The first Wednesday Walkers hike of the season took place on May 6 and was led by Preserve Steward Bill Claflin at the Pemaquid Watershed Association’s beautiful La Verna Preserve in Bristol.

The Regional School Unit 40 Board of Directors recognized the Medomak Middle School Science Olympiad team May 21. The team has been Maine’s state champs for three years running, and recently returned from nationals in Lincoln, Neb.

The namesake of Shaw’s Fish and Lobster Wharf is back in the lobster business. Howie Shaw is managing Joe Lane’s lobster eatery in downtown Damariscotta.

Memorial Day will be observed on Monday, May 25. Post offices and all state-regulated businesses will be closed. The Lincoln County News office will also be closed. Any early copy will be appreciated.

News copy and ads may also be left in the box in the entryway at the newspaper office.

Waldoboro’s longtime town clerk has filed suit against the town over a denied appeal of disciplinary proceedings brought against her by the town manager, according to court documents.

After a month of workshops that shaved $13,722.96 off the preliminary Wiscasset School Department budget, the school committee finalized its expenditure budget Wednesday, April 29.

A fire of yet unknown origin burned about 2.4 acres of woodland in the Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association’s West Branch Preserve in Somerville May 6.

Newcastle voters approved the town’s 2015-2016 secondary education budget during a special town meeting at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta Wednesday, May 13.

The board of the Central Lincoln County YMCA voted the morning of May 13 to terminate its lease of the former A.D. Gray school building from the town of Waldoboro, according to CLC Y Executive Director Meagan Hamblett.

A 31-year-old Salem, Mass. man who allegedly supplied convicted Lincoln County heroin dealers has been indicted in Maine and is currently awaiting trial at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.