Matt Lutkus, a 32-year employee and presently the deputy city manager of Westminster, Col., will be Damariscotta’s next town manager.

Town clerks are reminding Lincoln County voters…

After a devastating frost destroyed almost their entire cranberry crop last year, Mother Nature has been significantly kinder to the folks at Popp Farm in Dresden.

The Nobleboro Fire Dept. held a practice burn Oct. 17 on West Neck Road.

The musical duo Castlebay, Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee, have undertaken a new endeavor: collecting and preserving Midcoast Maine’s musical heritage.

Wiscasset Town Manager Laurie Smith informed the Board of the Selectmen Oct. 4 that the State would pay 80 percent of the cost of paving and raising the Federal Street sidewalk if the Town supplies the remaining funds.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Lincoln County in regard to a storm system forecast to impact the area beginning Saturday night.

With a 3-2 decision, the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted to advance a warrant article that, should it pass in a town referendum, would regulate the use and sale of fireworks.

Jill Rice, a member of the Pemaquid Watershed Association Board of Directors, met with the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen Oct. 19 to ask for the board’s support for the organization’s pursuit of a $1000 watershed protection grant to fund a restroom at the Biscay Pond beach.

A five-man crew started re-shingling the roof of historic Lincoln Hall, the modern-day home of the Lincoln Theater and the Maine Coast Book Shop & Café, early Oct. 17.

Whitfield dedicated their new fire station on Townhouse Road on Oct. 15 to long-time firefighter David Dixon.

The Great Salt Bay Community School robotics team might not be as well known as the school’s sports teams.

The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron Traveling Exhibit made a five-day stop at the Mid-Coast Air and Land Family Festival in Wiscasset Sat., Oct. 1.

Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, as well as community, public health and law enforcement partners are reminding the public of the third nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.