The vast majority of some 300 Bristol residents at a special town meeting Wednesday, Oct. 1 voted against allowing an offshore wind project to connect to the grid in Bristol.

The Damariscotta River Association is growing, with the acquisition of new land, an island and other projects in the making, all now under the banner of national accreditation.

While the arrangement with RSU 12 to provide the business office services satisfied an immediate need for the new Wiscasset School Department, interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage told the Wiscasset School Board Sept. 24, the distance between Wiscasset and Somerville is not working out.

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.

A project to improve the art room and library at Dresden Elementary School came to fruition with the grand opening for The Kenyon Center for Arts and Literacy Oct. 20.

Stephen King’s political roots go back to his days at the University of Maine, where he raised hell in the late ’60s as an anti-Vietnam War activist, when he was just embarking on a writing career that would make him one of the world’s best-read novelists.

Dane Anderson, 66, of Swarthmore, Penn., operate without safety equipment, July 25, $100, waived.

A jury has found a U.K. citizen not guilty of assault charges in connection to allegations he strangled his pregnant wife with a belt in Boothbay Harbor in December 2013.

Sen. Chris Johnson, D-Somerville, is defending his seat representing Senate District 13, formerly known, before last year’s redistricting of the House and Senate, as District 20.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to rename the recently named Redskin’s Drive to Micmac Drive at their meeting Tuesday, Oct. 7. This action followed a letter sent to the board by the property owners requesting a change to their private road name.

Quinn and Katya Martin, of Bristol, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Anastasia.

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.