With 41 boxes of food ready to be distributed to the Whitefield community, volunteers of the Whitefield Food Pantry hosted an open house April 3 at its new location at St. Denis Hall.

At the next Wiscasset Board of Selectmen’s meeting April 15, interim Town Manager Don Gerrish said he plans to propose allowing the Seeds of Knowledge Education Center to stay at the Scout Hall until the end of May.

Citing her inability to support the proposed $9.6 million budget and the Wiscasset School Board’s refusal to consider a two-school option, Sharon Nichols resigned from the board two years before her elected term was to end.

Soup, beautiful soupIn my household, soup comes in two categories, easy to make, and extremely time-consuming to make.

The Jefferson School Committee trimmed the town’s K-12 education budget slightly April 28, but the numbers still drew several split votes from the Jefferson Budget Committee.

A Boothbay Harbor man pleaded guilty April 23 to stealing metal from five Boothbay Harbor businesses about a year ago.

Updated April 21 at 1:15 p.m.
Police have released the identities of a Massachusetts couple who died when an oncoming car crossed the center line of Route 1 and struck their vehicle the afternoon of April 18.

Amy Winkle and Tor Glendinning, of Waldoboro, are pleased to announce the birth of a baby girl, Maari Kristina Glendinning.

A total of 306 Bristol households and one in South Bristol are without power in the wake of a blustery wind and rain storm that came through the area Tuesday night, according to the 11:19 a.m. report from Central Maine Power. No other households in Lincoln County were without power at the time of the report, according to CMP. That number puts Lincoln County in the unenviable position of having the highest number of power outages in the state, with Cumberland as a distant second with 66 and the statewide total at 478, according to CMP.

Nobleboro citizens voiced a variety of concerns over a proposed property maintenance ordinance at a public meeting on April 8.

Government Notices Bristol Bristol/South Bristol Transfer Facility There will be a board of directors meeting Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at the South Bristol Town Office TOWN OF BRISTOL Wind Power Advisory Committee Thursday, April 10 at 7pm Bristol Town Office Public Invited Town of Bristol Fish Committee Meeting The Fish Committee will meet Friday, April […]

The draft 2014-2015 budget for Great Salt Bay Community School would restore some positions cut in the previous budget cycle.

Damariscotta Police Department reports the following activity:

Complaints and investigationsMarch 25, Chief Ron Young responded to McDonalds on a report of suspicious activity.

Early results of a strategic planning survey, released April 11, indicates stakeholders in Wiscasset’s new education system deem the quality of education offered to students more important than the cost.