Say what you will about Ed Bosarge, one of Maine’s biggest individual donors to political campaigns – and the single biggest donor to Republicans – but never say, “He’s no rocket scientist.”

An Alna woman faces a felony assault charge after allegedly throwing a toy at her 4-year-old son, striking him in the face, although the woman said it was an accident.

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.

Lincoln County candidates debated topics from domestic violence to spending priorities during The Lincoln County News Meet the Candidates forum at Lincoln Academy’s Parker B. Poe Theater in Newcastle Monday, Sept. 29.

Maine Republicans should raise a bloody Mary to Paul Coulombe for the tens of thousands of dollars he has given their party and candidates – dollars he made selling his vodka brands to a national corporation.

A Waldoboro man who pleaded guilty to unlawful trafficking in schedule W drugs (oxycodone) in April was sentenced Sept. 25 to five years in prison with all but 18 months suspended.

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.”