The auction of the former Davis Island Grill and two condominiums in Edgecomb planned for Oct.18 has been postponed to a later date.

Train service will return to Newcastle next summer.

The Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association is working on a new project to reduce harmful runoff into the lake and is looking to the three lakeside towns to help sustain existing programs, according to the new DLWA Executive Director Jody Jones.

The citizens attending the weekly dinner at Wiscasset Community Center, Oct. 2, not only enjoyed a delicious dinner of “Guinness beef stew” and home-made Irish bread, they also were educated in the town’s potential cost to educate Wiscasset students.

The Wiscasset Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of a 20 year old local man last week.

They have not approved the project as yet, but the RSU 40 Board of Directors unanimously authorized applying for a federally-subsidized bond to fund $2.2 million of improvements to the district’s schools at their Oct. 17 meeting.

Chelsea Reed and Robert Hamilton of Warren are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Edward Robert Reed.

For Elijah Curtis, going to work is not like work at all. He is employed as the head cook at Hodgdon Green, an elder home in Damariscotta, but Curtis has spent the last two years building deeper relationships with the residents and his co-workers.

With jurisdiction across the county, the long brown-clad arm of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office provides primary law enforcement coverage to 15 of the county’s towns and supplemental coverage to the four towns with municipal police departments.

An electrical short in a lamp is cited as the cause of a fire at 122 Foye Rd. in Wiscasset Oct. 14. Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry reported the fire was out by the time his department arrived on the scene. According to Merry, the house was full of residual smoke.

A Bristol man has pleaded guilty to felony aggravated driving to endanger in connection with a 2011 car accident that seriously injured a Bristol woman.

An O.W. Holmes Inc. construction crew has unearthed a 19th century millstone in the foundation of the Varney Bridge on Redonnett Mill Road in Bristol Mills.

The former Hockomock Bottling Company building on Route 32 in Bremen will soon be demolished to make way for a new shellfish processing plant. The plant will be an expansion of current operations by local processor Community Shellfish LLC.

A one-in-10-million orange lobster briefly resided in a tank at Pemaquid Lobster & Seafood after crawling into a trap off New Harbor a month ago.