Nancie Atwell founded the Center for Teaching and Learning in 1990 to bring to life the innovative principles of education that she had written about and traveled the country speaking about. Twenty-four years later, the Center for Teaching and Learning has touched thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers, transforming their lives and their classrooms.

An anonymous $750,000 gift to Lincoln Academy will pay for the construction of a turf field and jump-start efforts to build new baseball and softball fields and a new track.

Schools and many businesses were closed on Monday as the latest snowstorm to visit Lincoln County pummeled the area with high winds and heavy snowfall.

Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett announced the Maine Sheriffs Association’s vote to back legislation that would revert Two Bridges Regional Jail to county control at the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Feb. 3.

A few fishing vessels in Bremen got a helping hand from the U.S. Coast Guard when the Rockland-based cutter Tackle came to town on an ice-breaking mission Feb. 24.

Although the weather has closed the Bremen Town Office for the day, the Bremen Board of Selectmen plans to meet as scheduled Thursday afternoon.

A Brewer woman was taken to LincolnHealth – Miles Campus in Damariscotta Feb. 25 with complaints of chest pain after an accident at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 in Edgecomb, according to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Gilbert.

Attendees of the Damariscotta Waterfront Improvement Committee’s open house braved a snowstorm for a chance to hear about potential waterfront projects Thursday, Feb. 12.

A leach field replacement and up to two-years of increased water testing are planned for Medomak Middle School after 2087 gallons of No. 2 heating oil were accidentally pumped into part of its septic system Feb 4.

Representatives of the Coopers Mills Volunteer Fire Department Association presented plans for a new Coopers Mills fire station at the Whitefield Board of Selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, Feb. 10. The department hopes to begin construction in the spring.

Schools and many businesses were closed on Monday as the latest snowstorm to visit Lincoln County pummeled the area with high winds and heavy snowfall. Temps in the single digits and sustained winds of 10 to 20 mph out of the north combined to bring on wind chills in the sub zero range. Snowfall, heavy at times, is forecast to continue into the evening hours, according to the National Weather Service.

A Damariscotta native is spending a year as a volunteer in Gros Morne, Haiti, helping women start small businesses and working in a school.

The Edgecomb Planning Board ended their dispute with Salt Point LLC by approving a clarified subdivision plan that lists two tracts of land at the center of the debate as lots.

The Dresden Elementary School PTF is sponsoring a benefit supper for the MacMaster Family on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Dresden Elementary School. The event starts at 4 p.m.