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.

Working with sample state ballots specific to their respective towns, seventh- and eight-grade students both voted in and operated a mock election at Medomak Middle School Oct. 30.

Lincoln County News senior reporter Dominik Lobkowicz received the Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award during the Maine Press Association’s annual conference at the Hilton Garden Inn in Auburn Saturday, Oct. 18.

Newcastle Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram President Randall Miller announced a building expansion project Oct. 17.

“The biggest single reason I give political donations,” writes Daniel Hildreth in an email to the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, “is my deep concern about global warming. It is a truly catastrophic threat to the global economy, to our ability to produce food, and to the environment that we depend on.”

Waldoboro officer’s responded to 276 calls for service in this time period. Below are a few of the highlights.

ArrestsDevin Davis, 27, of Friendship, on four warrants, Sept. 23.

Edgecomb voters approved a five-year loan for the Edgecomb Eddy School’s new John Deere tractor, purchased last spring, at a special town meeting Monday, Oct. 20. The vote to approve the purchase was 14-12.

Lincoln County’s sheriff and county commissioner for District 2 are both Democrats, both long-serving county officials, and both unopposed in their re-election bids this year.

SheriffTodd B. Brackett, D-Nobleboro, is currently in his third term as Lincoln County sheriff.

Making the rounds on the campaign trail this week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, started her day at the weekly Damariscotta-Newcastle Rotary Club breakfast in Newcastle Oct. 7.

Damariscotta River Association Board of Trustees President Bruce Lutsk announced the DRA has added three new trustees to the board.

On the eve of hotly contested withdrawal votes in Palermo and Windsor, the RSU 12 Board of Directors passed a special resolution supporting the continued participation of each of its current seven member communities.

The staff of The Lincoln County News collected 16 awards in the 2014 Maine Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including top honors in eight categories.