A new Family Dollar discount store is planned for Route 1 in Waldoboro, across from Harold C. Ralph Chevrolet.

Following an executive session in the high school library Monday evening, the Wiscasset School Board voted unanimously to hire Cheri Towle, of Newcastle, to be the new Wiscasset High School Principal.

The Mobius Creative Expressions Art Show is on display at River Arts in Damariscotta through Friday, May 16.

The Wiscasset School Board voted 4-1 May 1 to approve a $9.4 million school budget, which now awaits approval of Wiscasset taxpayers.

A Boothbay man faces 12 felony and nine misdemeanor charges of distributing and possessing child pornography last September and October.

A polarizing proposal to install floating wind turbines off Monhegan Island did not receive an important $47 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Jeremy D. Reed, 36, of Edgecomb, a charge of operating a vehicle after registration suspended was dismissed, for an incident in Bath on Dec. 11, 2013.

A trio of Damariscotta residents, two with backgrounds in dance and theater, find friendship and an opportunity for creative expression as members of the troupe Hearts Ever Young.

The Department of Education released this year’s report cards for Maine’s schools May 15, and 12 of the 18 schools ranked in Lincoln County saw their scores slide from 2013.

Two 20-year-old men, one from Waldoboro and another from New York City, were arrested by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency in Waldoboro May 16 and charged with trafficking in oxycodone, a Class B felony.

Wiscasset High School senior Thomas Chadwick, sparked with an interest for fixing things, used his electrical skills to repair the school’s electronic scoreboard.

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Boothbay Voters Create TIF, Donate Land, Favor Secret Ballot
Boothbay voters created a tax increment financing district and signed off on the donation of an under-utilized town property during annual town meeting May 5.

Boothbay Harbor Residents Sail Through Town Meeting
In less than an hour, a handful of Boothbay Harbor residents approved a 24-article town meeting warrant totaling $4,118,853 May 3. The new budget represents an increase of less than one percent over last year’s town budget.

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More than 75 Lincoln County residents met with elected state officials April 28 to air questions and concerns about the wind mill test project to be installed two miles south of Monhegan Island.

Parents Mike and Liza Hall and siblings Adeline, Lila, Alden, and Pearl Jane Hall, of Bremen, are overjoyed to announce the arrival of a baby sister, Clementine Elizabeth.