Following a public hearing July 22, the Whitefield Board of Selectmen approved an extension of the town’s moratorium on mineral extraction.

The Pythian Sisters and the Knights of PythiasWe find that as the years pass by, we often ask each other if we still remember some of the older men and women who lived in Newcastle, Damariscotta, and Bristol, when we were going to Lincoln Academy back in the 1950s.

A 45-year-old Augusta man was injured after he pulled his car into the path of a northbound pickup truck on Route 1 in Waldoboro July 28.

The Damariscotta properties where a group of investors hoped to foster a major business and housing development will go to auction on Tuesday, July 22.

Most of the 25 members of Plein Air Painters – The Real Thing turned out with their easels and brushes in hand July 10 to paint Glidden Street in Newcastle.

A dirty dozen gathered at Cranberry Cove on Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson July 7 to lay down a black liner with the hopes of snuffing out hydrilla discovered there in 2009. Unlike the 1967 movie where convicted murderers were on WWII mission to assassinate German officers, these mud-caked volunteers were on a mission to eradicate the invasive plant from the cove.

So far, a Flash Flood Watch and a High Surf Advisory are the only warnings issued by the National Weather Service in regard to approaching hurricane Arthur, which is expected to bring some heavy rainfall and high winds to Lincoln County beginning in the afternoon hours of July 4

The following property transfers were recorded recently at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset:

Alna: Brittney Morgan and Brittney Morgan Cross to Laura M. Hiestand, Benjamin P. Chandler and Samuel K. Chandler;

A woman alleged to have robbed and burglarized a Waldoboro store in February pleaded guilty June 26 to stealing pipe tobacco from a neighboring smoke shop on June 19.

Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association is participating in a new pilot program that will help bring “near real-time” water quality information on Damariscotta Lake into the public eye.

This opens another column from our life at Crawford Commons.

July 1, a sunny, hot and humid day. When we got up this morning near 6 a.m., we both were in pain. We had gone over the time limit. When I opened our room, the med tech was worked up because the computer system went down during the night. It had come up again but she wouldn’t have time to give us our pain medication, as she had to close her books and turn it all over to the next shift.

A Bristol man allegedly held a handgun to a neighbor’s head and threatened to kill him on Poor Farm Road in Bristol, Thursday, July 17.

The new chair of the Waldoboro Planning Board plans to reach out to his counterpart on the board of selectmen to discuss jointly sending town ordinances and planning board rules to the Maine Municipal Association for review.

The Rockport-based waterfront property rental, sales, and management company On the Water in Maine plans to open a second location at 27 Main St. in Damariscotta by the end of July.