With afternoon temperatures climbing to over 90 degrees, concerned residents called Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies to check on an elderly woman living in a small cabin at the Pine Crest Motor Court in Edgecomb.

Damariscotta isn’t going to rush the selection of its next police chief.

At a special town meeting on July 5, residents of Jefferson voted not to accept a state grant to pay for installation of a recycling facility.

After 11 years on State Rt. 32 in Round Pond, Peapod Jewelry has relocated to U.S. Rt. 1 in Edgecomb.

Parts of Maine will experience unusually hot weather over the next two days. Heat and humidity will be highest on Thursday and persist through Friday in the southern and southwestern parts of the state, especially in York, Cumberland, and Oxford Counties. Nighttime temperatures will also be higher than usual.

District 20 State Senator David Trahan has announced his intentions to resign from the Senate to assume a position as the head of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.

Nancy Hanna of Round Pond was hired recently to serve as the new Bremen Town Clerk.

At the town meeting polls on June 14, Waldoboro residents voted down eight budget items. To create budgets for those departments, the town will meet at an open special town meeting on Sat., July 9, at 9 a.m. in the Medomak Valley High School gymnasium.

Waldoboro Police arrested a South Thomaston man after they say he tried to pass four counterfeit $20 bills at Rockland Savings Bank in Waldoboro.

Sen. David Trahan may leave his senate seat to become Executive Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM).

News of the possible move broke July 15, but Trahan said nothing is set in stone at this point.

An Arrowsic man pleaded guilty to multiple counts of child molestation on July 14 in Lincoln County Superior Court.

Former teacher and longtime Medomak Valley High School Principal Ron Dolloff announced his resignation from the RSU/MSAD 40 School Board at the board’s meeting on July 7.

The possibility of the Damariscotta River Association (DRA) taking ownership of a 40-acre parcel has South Bristol officials rankled and one selectman threatening legislation to impede land acquisition by the DRA and similar organizations.

When they return this fall, Nobleboro Central School kids will find several additions to their playground. Using a combination of private grants and local fundraising, the school will add several pieces to the playground this summer.