Wiscasset resident Phil DiVece has filled many roles during his lifetime: a husband, father, reporter, newspaper publisher, teacher, selectman, and now author of his second book about Wiscasset’s past.

Starting with its 25th anniversary nine years ago, Warren-based Lie-Nielsen Toolworks has been bringing together craftsmen, toolmakers, and others connected to the woodworking field for an annual open house focused on education.

The future of the building formerly known as the Wiscasset Primary School was on the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen’s agenda at their July 7 meeting.

A pickup truck towing a trailer struck and killed a 300- to 400-pound moose on Gardiner Road (Route 27) in Dresden Tuesday night, June 30.

An Augusta man was summonsed for failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle following an accident on Route 17 in Whitefield the morning of Monday, July 20.

The red barn at 536 Bath Rd. in Wiscasset will remain an antique dealership thanks to the teamwork of Danny Lester, Rick Moore, and Sparky Lindsey.

The district attorney’s office is appealing a July 6 ruling by a judge who concluded that cellphone records obtained by investigators were taken without probable cause and thus cannot be used at an arson trial involving a boathouse and fishing vessel in Waldoboro.

In its 20th year of brewing what many have hailed the best beer in Maine, the Sheepscot Valley Brewing Company has added another purpose to its multi-purpose room in the Whitefield barn that serves as the company’s brewery and distribution center.

At the regular meeting of the Lincoln County Fire Chiefs Association June 17, the Lincoln County Fire Academy presented the Newman Award to James Richardson, of the Westport Island Fire Department.

Dow Furniture was named Readers’ Choice Best Furniture Store in Down East magazine’s annual poll of reader and editor favorites, featured in the July issue.

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As she and her young family have worked to establish their own roots on a farm in Somerville, Kelly Payson-Roopchand has written a new book to capture not only a year of their own efforts but the history of six generations that preceded them.

Regional School Unit 40 ended up with more state subsidy this year than expected and, if voters approve, it could mean lower local costs for the district’s five towns.

A Georgia woman faces criminal charges and remains in serious condition at Maine Medical Center after suffering injuries in an accident on Bristol Road in Damariscotta late Saturday, July 25.

A prominent Waldoboro attorney will be suspended from practicing law throughout August for violating a court order last year in a domestic violence case.