Wiscasset residents voted 367-133 to close Wiscasset Primary School in a referendum Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Following a joint meeting with the budget committee Dec. 2, the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted to hold a special town meeting Thursday, Dec. 11, asking the voters to purchase a new truck for the town’s public works department.

A gingerbread manhunt came to a head Dec. 17 when Waldoboro police officers, apparently in the right place at the right time, captured a confectionery fugitive escaping from Deb’s Diner in Waldoboro.

A Boothbay Harbor family lost their home and pets to a fire Christmas night. The community responded by raising $25,000 to help the family rebuild.

An Indiana man has been extradited to Wiscasset for allegedly posing as a Maine high school student on Facebook and convincing a Lincoln County minor to send him sexually explicit photographs.

Government Notices Bremen Bremen Clam Committee will meet with Department of Marine Resources on Wed., Dec. 17, 2014at 10:00 AM at the Bremen Town Center to Discuss Bremen’s Clam Ordinance Bremen Selectmen Will Meet at 4:00 pm on Dec. 18, 2014 to Discuss the Budget. Regular Meeting Will Follow. Bristol TOWN OF BRISTOL Nomination papers […]

In what could qualify as one of the shortest special town meetings on record, Wiscasset voters needed less than five minutes to approve the purchase of a new snow plow truck Dec. 11.

After serving the town of Wiscasset for 37 years, Sue Varney was honored Dec. 19 at the Wiscasset Community Center by the state of Maine, town officials, past town officials, former town employees, family members, her friends, and the people of Wiscasset.

A total of 189 households, most in the northern part of Lincoln County, were the first power outages reported as heavy rainfall and high winds blasted through the area Tuesday night. The outages were included in the 7:28 p.m. update from Central Maine Power. A Wind Advisory issued by the National Weather Service remained in effect until 11 p.m. as winds gusting to 50 mph were forecast to buffet Lincoln County.

Mobius Inc. Executive Director David Lawlor will retire Dec. 31 after almost 18 years as head of the Damariscotta nonprofit.

The clock is ticking for members from the Round Pond community who hope to purchase and preserve the last undeveloped waterfront lot in Round Pond Harbor.

A barn fire on West Hamlet Road in Newcastle destroyed the small barn and its contents Monday night, Nov. 3.

The Wiscasset Police Department reports the following activity for the week ending Nov. 24:

ArrestsTammy R. Elliott, 44, Friendship, violating condition of release, Nov. 23.

In his 88 years, U.S. Army veteran Dean Ness, now of Damariscotta, has seen and done a lot – he fought in Europe during World War II, studied under renowned psychologist Carl Jung in Switzerland, and rode the rails with tramps in the 1950s.