Wiscasset High School welcomed 22 teachers from Taishun Yucai School in Zhejiang Province, China, at an all-school assembly Oct. 21.

River Company’s fall production of “An Evening of Christopher Durang” opened in the Porter Room at Skidompha Library on Friday.

A new steeple was installed atop Wiscasset’s First Congregational Church before a crowd of happy and relieved parishioners Oct. 17.

Hammond Lumber plans to retain New England Building Materials employees and add more, increase inventory and return its recently acquired Lincoln County stores to the boom times of the Poole Brothers era.

On Sat., Oct. 15 at 8 a.m., the gates will open at Mic Mac Campground on Rt 17, Union on “The First Backwoods Bash.”

Gamage Shipyard plans to remove a large, crumbling shed, long a prominent feature of South Bristol’s working waterfront.

A Winter Storm Watch issued by The National Weather Service (NWS) for Lincoln County in regard to a storm system forecast to impact the area beginning Saturday night has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning, meaning that severe weather is either imminent or approaching. The first line of the storm front should arrive in Lincoln County during the mid-evening hours, according to the NWS forecast. Any rainfall should change over to snowfall or an icy mix as the night progresses. Snowfall should continue through the night, heavy at times, and start to taper off Sunday morning.

Seemingly just in time for Halloween, a security camera at the Lincoln County Court House has taped a mysterious object as it floated down a hallway and disappeared through the solid wood of a closed door.

The South Bristol Historical Society and a handful of residents carried on a local tradition last weekend, smoking herring in the organization’s historic smokehouse.

Over 850 walkers trekked though Damariscotta Oct. 16 to raise money for research to help prevent breast cancer in the “14th Annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk.”

Great Salt Bay Community School has completed fundraising for a new sound system.

Alna Board of Selectmen Chairman Dave Abbott won the second place silver medal in his class at the Maine Senior Games archery competition Oct. 1 in Yarmouth.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen approved the ballot for a Nov. 8 referendum special town meeting and scheduled a public hearing for Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. at the town office on Rt. 1.

Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

Recent incidentsOn Aug. 30, Deputy Brent Barter responded to a reported the theft of tools and a generator being tampered with at a residence on Cedar Grove Road in Dresden.