The question of Wiscasset’s school resource officer will be decided by voters at the annual town meeting. Wiscasset selectmen voted 3-2 to restore a warrant article asking for the appropriation of $47,400 for the school resource officer in the final minutes of a special meeting held to finalize the warrant Friday, April 24.

Whitefield has a new emergency management director. On April 7, the Whitefield Board of Selectmen voted to appoint Nicole Ripley to fill the position, which has been vacant since November.

In a coordinated effort dubbed Operation Help Thy Neighbor, Chelsea Elementary School hosted the approximately 174 students and staff from Whitefield Elementary School while repairs in Whitefield were underway.

Sarah Green and Rein Green are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Trinity Madison Green.

Down East magazine’s April 2015 cover story names Van Lloyd’s Bistro in Damariscotta one of “Maine’s Best New Restaurants.”

Government Notices Bremen TOWN OF BREMEN Planning Board Meeting March 10, 2015 at 7 p.m. Bremen Town Office Applications: 1.Gordon Libby Forest Products Sub-Division Application M10,L1 2.James McKinney M4,L65-E New Business: 1.Proper response to persons asking for info and advice without a permit application. Old Business: 1.Review Devlin Application 2.Michael Clark, Muscongus Pier Replacement Bristol […]

The ALLPLaY Family Entertainment Center in Waldoboro is up for sale just over a year after its owners bought property to build a second location in Belfast.

A Newcastle retiree faces a felony charge after allegedly brandishing a large knife and threatening to kill a sheriff’s deputy in his apartment Jan. 10.

A silver 2002 Dodge Ram is currently at the bottom of Damariscotta Lake and removing it will not be easy, Maine Game Warden Joey Lefebvre said. The truck, owned by Norman Palmer, fell through the ice on Damariscotta Lake Feb. 2, Lefebvre said.

Charity donations, accepting Moosehead Lane as a town road, and a new municipal parking lot were the warrant articles that generated the most discussion at the Whitefield town meeting Saturday, March 21. After some discussion, debate, and defeated amendments, voters approved the $997,453 worth of expenditures included in the warrant.

A former Wiscasset man was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday, March 12 after pleading guilty to a robbery and selling heroin in Augusta.

A car crashed into a utility pole on Union Road (Route 235) in Waldoboro shortly before 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 11.

Alna’s third selectman seat is the only contested race to be voted on at the March town meeting and a recent email from a private resident has turned up the heat of the election.

Every penny countsAbout once a month a neighbor knocks on my door and hands me a $20 bill. “For the shelter,” he says, then quietly takes his leave. What does this gift mean for the Lincoln County Animal Shelter?