At a nearly five-hour meeting on the evening of Thursday, May 16, the RSU 40 Board of Directors passed a motion to delete the district’s transgender and gender expansive students policy, the first of two votes that would be needed to remove the policy.

Edgecomb residents packed into the town hall for their annual town meeting Saturday, May 18, working their way through a 66-article warrant in slightly under four hours. In the end, almost every article passed as written, however, public comments made it clear Edgecomb residents were feeling the financial pain.

The AOS 93 Board voted unanimously during a meeting the evening of Tuesday, May 14 to hire a new superintendent.

A Waldoboro man who ran for state Senate in 2022 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capital.

“Bullying isn’t cool – it’s cruel,” read a series of colorful posters drawn by RSU 12 elementary school students and displayed in the Chelsea Elementary School cafeteria on the evening of Thursday, May 9.

During a ceremony on Thursday, May 9 in the Hall of Flags at the Maine Capitol, Wiscasset Elementary School teacher Becky Hallowell was named Lincoln County Teacher of the Year.

The harbor ordinance in South Bristol, established in 1988, only slightly predates Cecil Burnham’s involvement with the town’s harbor management, which began in 1990. After 35 years, however, Burnham retired from the position at the age of 82.

In a crowded Lincoln Academy gymnasium on the evening of Monday, May 13, Newcastle residents voted 71-8 to approve a moratorium on firearm sales permits.

Residents passed six articles in total at a special town meeting held at the Bremen town office on Tuesday, May 7, including amendments to the town’s land use ordinance and shoreland zoning ordinance, permitting authority, and transfer of funds.

espite previous assurances to the public that a decision would be made during a special Whitefield Planning Board meeting the evening of Wednesday, May 1, residents did not hear a resolution on a proposed residential substance abuse treatment facility in Coopers Mills.

In Bristol on Friday, May 3, crews worked together for more than 12 hours to protect the waters around Shaw’s Fish and Lobster Wharf and recover a barge that partially sank that morning.

Patrons of Wiscasset Speedway may have noticed a new addition on the property during the track’s season opener at the end of April. Now calling Wiscasset Speedway home is a replica of what was once known as “the smallest church in the world,” Wiscasset’s Union Church.