This year’s Fourth of July marked an additional milestone for the town of Damariscotta, as a long weekend’s worth of events celebrating the town’s 175th anniversary concluded with a packed fireworks show over the river.

Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service’s Nicholas Bryant received recognition for local and regional contributions to the emergency medical system with the Maine EMS Merit Award, issued by the state’s EMS board.

Westport Island residents approved the 60 articles before them at their annual town meeting Saturday, June 24, including accepting the donation of the former town dump, setting up various reserve accounts and agreeing to provide health benefits for town office employees.

Despite the likelihood of a stiff mil rate increase this year, Somerville voters took a pragmatic approach while dispatching a 26-article warrant during a three-plus hour annual town meeting at the Somerville Elementary School on Saturday, June 24.

Bremen voters returned incumbent municipal candidates to their seats at the polls on Saturday morning, June 24, and worked through a 55-article warrant with little debate at annual town meeting that afternoon.

Granite Hall has been a beloved fixture in Round Pond for 150 years, and the Herndon family has been the driving force behind the counter for the last 40. 

Following an occasionally tense two hour meeting at the Alna town office Thursday, June 22, the Alna Select Board formalized the findings of a June 8 ethics hearing recusing Alna First Selectperson Ed Pentaleri from further participation in litigation issues related to Jeffry Spinney’s private boat ramp.