The Damariscotta Planning Board, at its June 4 meeting, approved a preliminary site plan application from Midcoast restaurateur Wai Lam to open a Chinese take-out.

More than 20 Nobleboro residents were on hand at a meeting, June 20, designed to help the Nobleboro Board of Selectmen determine whether the town should create an ordinance to control or limit the use of consumer fireworks.

Over three days in June for the past 28 years, bicyclists ride 180 miles from Bethel to Belfast in the now-called Trek Across Maine event to raise money for the American Lung Association (ALA).

The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce Glenn Chadbourne as the Artist Guest of Honor for the 2013 World Horror Convention (WHC) 2013.

Gary and Heather (Farrar) Higgins, of Jefferson, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Samantha Dawn Higgins.

At 1:30 p.m., a Lincoln County News correspondent reports Rt. 1 northbound traffic from Waldoboro is still being diverted to Rt. 220.

Damariscotta voters will decide whether to enact a proposed fireworks ordinance during the open portion of the annual town meeting June 13.

As Lincoln Academy prepares to launch an international residential program in fall 2013, its international student population lives with local families during the academic year.

Newcastle, by the slim margin of 49-42, resolved “to defend democracy from the corrupting effects of undue corporate power” at annual town meeting June 18.

Police have not identified the body recovered from a single vehicle crash in Somerville June 14.

An attorney for the defendant charged with the July 2011 murder of Christiana Fesmire has filed four motions in Androscoggin Superior Court. Fesmire’s parents live in Bremen.

A two-vehicle head-on accident occurred on Rt. 1 in Waldoboro just north of Rt. 235 around 11 a.m. on June 8, that claimed the life of an unnamed subject, according to Waldoboro Police Officer Tom Hoepner.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen met June 5 at the Municipal Meeting Room to discuss the upcoming Fourth of July activities and the town’s new fireworks ordinance, which voters approved last November.

The Bristol Fireworks Advisory Committee presented a two-page list of suggested fireworks regulations, including a sales ban, to the Bristol Board of Selectmen June 20.