Jim Hilton is stepping down next month after roughly 23 years service on the Jefferson Board of Selectmen.

By a vote of 75-35, Wiscasset voters approved the $9.4 million school budget as recommended by the Wiscasset School Board at the budget adoption meeting on May 15.

Government Notices Bristol Bristol Mills Cemetery Association Meeting The annual meeting will be held in the Bristol Congregational Church Vestry, Wednesday, May 21, at 7:00 PM. Lot owners and their Heirs are eligible to attend and are urged to do so. The Bristol Planning Board will have a business meeting on Thursday, May 15th at […]

When Heather Hilton Clark lost her Lincoln Academy class ring in 1989, she was sure it was gone forever.

Jyang-Lee’s Kitchen, a Whitefield company, is voluntarily recalling all Jyang-Lee’s Kitchen brand poultry products that did not receive the full benefit of inspection. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Maine Meat and Poultry Inspection program made the announcement May 29.

Robert T. Armstrong, 42, Dresden, criminal solicitation, April 15, 2013; tampering with witness, informant, juror or victim, April 15, 2013, both dismissed.

A partnership between a new nonprofit group and a new arts venue is looking to bolster arts of all kinds in Waldoboro and other area towns.

The nonprofit Stepping Stone Housing Inc. has scaled back its plans to establish temporary housing for Lincoln County’s homeless in Damariscotta, but its leaders remain determined to fulfill their goal.

Updated May 15 at 2:05 p.m.
A Nobleboro man injured in an accident in Waldoboro was transported by Lifeflight helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland according to Alan Crowell, a spokesperson for LincolnHealth – Miles Campus.

A Bristol woman allegedly hit a pickup truck while drunken driving and texting on School Street in Damariscotta, then left the scene, Tuesday, May 13.

LD 1824, the bill that proposed giving the Maine Board of Corrections additional authority is now law, after the Maine House and Senate overrode a gubernatorial veto May 1.

A state agency has determined that Lincoln County Healthcare must once again provide urgent care 24-hours-a-day, 7 days a week in the Boothbay area.

Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline reports the following arrests and summons:

ArrestsOn April 29 Brandon Raymond Carleton, 26, of Bath, was arrested for operating after suspension.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Lincoln County and surrounding areas through 9 p.m. Memorial Day. A “watch” is a lower grade advisory that means severe weather may not be imminent. Radar images monitored at intellicast.com at 3:09 p.m. indicated highly scattered weather systems moving aloft from the northwest at a fairly good clip. The NWS advisory covers the possibility that any one of these could develop into a thunderstorm.