Lincoln County residents may want to be prepared for possible power outages during the overnight hours of Wednesday into Thursday, according to the latest bulletin from the National Weather Service. Thousands of power outages that have occurred in the past several hours in areas south of Lincoln County may be a harbinger of things to come. Those areas are already experiencing the high winds and heavy snowfall yet to arrive in our area.

Jamel Martin Torres is joining the town of Wiscasset team to fill its open position as Wiscasset’s town planner. His first day will be Monday, Dec. 8.

A malfunctioning motor filled two Lincoln Academy classrooms with smoke and called Newcastle and Damariscotta fire departments to the Newcastle school late Tuesday night, Nov. 18.

The Animal House, an award-winning, family-owned business in Damariscotta since 2005, is opening a second location in Westbrook in the Kohl’s plaza on Nov. 15.

My wife and I have so often been asked how we find some of the history items we write about. Well, the truth is we both never know when the next lot of old records or written articles will suddenly appear from out of the past.

Maine’s The Donald may not have the ego, the comb-over or the politics of Manhattan’s, but when it comes to being a player, our Donald is as big in Maine as Trump is in New York.

A Dresden woman who allegedly drove away in a Jeep Grand Cherokee while another woman and her child were leaning into the front passenger seat, injuring the 1-year-old boy, has been indicted on felony charges.

Expected to be up and running within a month, a new geothermal heating system at Lincoln County Publishing Company will heat around 10,000 square feet of the company’s facilities, according to Publisher Chris Roberts.

You could call Cyrus Hagge one of Portland’s most civically and culturally active citizens.

Or you could say he really likes going to meetings.

A prominent Waldoboro attorney could face up to full disbarment from practicing law in Maine if allegations he engaged in “conduct unworthy of an attorney” and violated certain professional standards are found to have occurred.

The Dresden Board of Selectmen is considering a parking ban to address safety concerns at the corner of Gardiner Road (Route 27) and Middle Road (Route 127/197).

Alna Republican Leslie T. “Les” Fossel is running against Democrat incumbent Sen. Chris Johnson for Senate District 13, representing Washington, Windsor, and all of Lincoln County except Dresden. This is the second go-round for both candidates; Johnson and Fossel previously faced off to represent the same region in 2012.

Damariscotta-based Ocean Classroom ceased operations in August, but the experiential education organization’s three schooners have found new owners and a new nonprofit may continue Ocean Classroom’s style of programming under a new business model.

A Waldoboro woman was arrested for allegedly trafficking cocaine after law enforcement executed a search warrant on her Castner Road home Oct. 1, according to a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency press release.