A leading conservation scientist has been hired to lead the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2015.

The grassroots effort to purchase Lupine Field in Round Pond was near its fundraising goal by the purchase deadline of July 15. The Round Pond Village Improvement Society, in partnership with the Medomak Valley Land Trust, has entered into a contract to purchase and preserve the field.

Two individuals were transported to the hospital Tuesday night, July 14 after the car they were traveling in rolled over several times on Bog Road in Dresden.

The vote was close on funding $60,000 for the construction of a dirt, camp-style road for Bremen’s Hay Conservation and Recreation Area at a special town meeting July 2, but the measure passed 7 votes to 5.

Government Notices Bremen Bremen Selectmen’s Meeting Will begin at 4:30 PM on Thursday, July 2, 2015 Followed by Special Town Meeting at 6:00 PM Bristol Notice of Tax Sale Town of Bristol The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Bristol is accepting bids for the purchase of the municipality’s interest in one tax acquired […]

A Waldoboro woman was arrested and charged with operating under the influence after she was allegedly involved in a single-vehicle rollover accident on Washington Road the morning of July 1, according to Waldoboro Police Officer Larry Hesseltine.

This article may be of great interest to the newcomers to our area and the local schoolchildren. Everyone takes the telephone or so-called land line for granted as a way of communicating by voice from one place to another. The cellphone is now taking the place of the old-style phone, but that was not always the way of life in Damariscotta.

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.

Rockland optometrist Dr. William Coppola hopes to open a Damariscotta office in his new building across from Young’uns on Main Street by September.

As part of discussions on the failed budget for the office of the town manager, Waldoboro Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs offered July 14 to keep her salary flat for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

Damariscotta author and journalist Brian Kevin recently captured an award for the best nonfiction book by a Maine author in 2014 with his debut effort.

Katrina Guernsey and Jamie Goodwin, of Warren, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Alekzander Vincent Goodwin.

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.