In a special election on Friday, Jan. 31, voters chose Jeffrey Bickford to fill a vacant seat on the Dresden Select Board.

Approximately a dozen Bristol residents approved funding $1.16 million bridge construction project with little discussion during a special town meeting Wednesday, Jan. 29 at the town office.

Eight years after they established an equine education and rehabilitation sanctuary on Mount Desert Island, Holly and Jamie Riordan are ready to branch out and bring their knowledge, passion, and commitment to Alna.

South Bristol School’s water contamination saga appears to have an end in sight.

Though the darkest days of Maine winter may seem bleak and gray, those who know where to look find the world still teeming with colorful, feathered animal life.

Surrounded by loving family, Abbie Roberts, 94, died at her home in Nobleboro on Sunday, Feb. 2, after a period of declining health.

Frequent patrons of Good Things Thrift and Craft Shop in Waldoboro may have noticed on Fridays that the store’s staffers are a little younger than usual.

Two weeks after guiding the Wiscasset Middle High School girls basketball program to its first win since Dec. 22, 2016, first-year head coach Daniel Wall was removed from the position by the school on Friday, Jan. 24.

Alna residents discussed concerns about potential geologic disturbance and the importance of regulating explosive use in town during a public hearing over a proposed blasting ordinance on Thursday, Jan. 23.

Despite a proposal from the AOS 93 Board to eliminate the central office’s assistant special education position, voters brought back funding for the position and passed the central office budget during meeting the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 22.

In 1985, Glenn Chadbourne, of Newcastle, was a 24-year-old college student, attending art school in Portland and nurturing a pipe dream of making a living in the niche world of make-believe horror. Today, according to the terms he set for himself, he is an unqualified success, as familiar to fans of Stephen King’s work as the personal peculiarities of the horror master himself.

The Bremen Select Board appointed Eric Teele as the town’s new fire chief during the board’s meeting at the town office Thursday, Jan. 16.

Anyone who has passed through the Damariscotta area since the late 1980s and stayed for any amount of time likely ran into longtime bartender, innkeeper, Great Salt Bay Sanitary District Committee member, and public television host Robert “Bobby” Whear, of Damariscotta Mills.

According to local heating assistance providers, more Lincoln County residents than ever are struggling to stay warm this winter. As frigid temperatures are set to continue, and with an application “backlog” slowing distribution of federal heating assistance dollars, local agencies are scrambling to fill the gap.