Updated Dec. 26 at 3:20 p.m.
An online fundraiser set up by a relative of the Boothbay Harbor family whose house was destroyed by fire on Christmas night has already met and surpassed its $10,000 goal.

Hall Burial Grounds, part 2The first article on the Hall Burial Grounds discussed patriarch Elijah Hall, his wife, Dorothy (Winslow) Hall, and several of their children, whose headstones are located on the left side of the cemetery. This article focuses on those children and their families who are buried on the right side of the cemetery.

Damariscotta Police Chief Ron Young announced the hiring of Joanna Kenefick, of Washington, as the Damariscotta Police Department’s new administrative assistant, during a Damariscotta Board of Selectmen meeting Dec. 17.

Schools officials reported a better outlook regarding Jefferson’s anticipated budget shortfall in a meeting with the town’s selectmen Dec. 15, and both bodies opted to continue a wait-and-see approach on the issue.

Consolidation of grades K-6 into a single building and the search for interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage’s replacement dominated discussion at the Wiscasset School Committee meeting Wednesday, Dec. 10.

Despite inclement weather Dec. 9, Wiscasset residents turned out in force to overwhelmingly vote in favor of closing the Wiscasset Primary School, 367-133.

Bristol and Newcastle pumper trucks released the waters that Damariscotta Fire Department’s new Engine 3 roared through during a wet-down ceremony at the Damariscotta firehouse Saturday, Dec. 6.

Robert and Margaret Baker, a Newcastle couple who passed away just days apart in late November, were people who gave both of themselves and their wallets to benefit Lincoln County towns in a number of ways.

Two separate accidents in Waldoboro Dec. 23 resulted in drivers being charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, according to the Waldoboro Police Department.

Thomas Dostie, of Somerville, joined the U.S. Army in 2001 at the age of 17. He wanted to become a diesel mechanic. His life was cut short three years later in Mosul, Iraq.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives at Forward Operating Base Marez’s mess tent at approximately noon Dec. 21, 2004. Twenty-two were killed; one was Dostie.

Three state legislators gathered at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset Wednesday, Dec. 17 to tour the facility and learn about budgetary issues that have plagued the facility since the consolidation of the county jail system in 2008.

RSU 12 was one of 13 school districts in Maine awarded a multimillion-dollar Department of Education preschool expansion grant on Dec. 10. A total of $14.8 million in federal funds will go to Maine schools to increase access to preschool education – approximately $3.2 million will go to RSU 12.

An Exeter, N.H. woman who had been missing since Friday, Dec. 12 was found in Newcastle around 6 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 13.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen approved the sale and replacement of two of the oldest engines in the Taniscot Engine Company during a meeting Dec. 22.