Firefighters, first responders, and law enforcement personnel from across three counties gathered in Waldoboro on Saturday, Sept. 20 to pay their final respects to the late Waldoboro Fire Chief Richard “Dick” Glidden.

Jefferson’s budget and school committees voted to approve a revised $9,369,346.88 education budget for the 2026 fiscal year at a budget committee meeting Tuesday, Sept. 9, setting residents up to consider the budget for the third time in less than six months.

As they have every year since 2003, volunteers the fanned out across Lincoln County on Saturday, Sept. 13 for Community Housing Improvement Project Inc.’s annual neighbor-helping-neighbor event, Community Cares Day.

After a busy weekend in Washington, D.C., the veterans on Honor Flight Maine were given a hero’s welcome at the Portland International Jetport when they arrived home on Sunday, Sept. 7. The returning veterans were honored with a parade and greeted by enthusiastic family members, friends, and strangers who were there to thank them for their service and welcome them home.

It’s been over 27 years since Maine Yankee shut its doors, but Wiscasset may soon be home to a new major operation – a data center.

Community members, teachers, school officials, and students gathered at Bristol Consolidated School on Thursday, Sept. 11 to celebrate the grand opening of a new wing. The formal ribbon-cutting marked the completion of a construction and renovation project that has been years in the making.

All roads lead back to Maine for Wiscasset resident E.J. Dupont, the new Maine State Ferry Service director.

After receiving an update on previously discussed violations at East Ridge Mobile Home Park, Waldoboro Select Board members decided more work needs to be done at the park during their Tuesday, Sept. 9 meeting.

Wiscasset Police Officer Jonathan Barnes is being praised for his quick thinking after an accidental exposure to a white powdery substance briefly incapacitated Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine on Monday, Sept. 8.

In a close vote, Wiscasset residents validated the town’s $10,744,119 education budget on Thursday, Sept. 4.

Two Edgecomb residents and a Massachusetts man are in custody on drug charges following a month-long investigation into drug trafficking in Edgecomb.

Alna residents unanimously voted to authorize the select board’s transfer of two historic land parcels to the Fund to Support Historic Alna on Thursday, Aug. 28.