As a life coach, Dresden resident Elizabeth Sylvester said she sees people visibly transform from despair to a renewed sense of purpose and confidence.

The death of a 19-year-old Waldoboro man last July was caused by accidental drowning, according to a State Medical Examiner’s report.

Damariscotta Police are looking for two young women who are believed to be involved in the misuse of a debit card in the Damariscotta area Wednesday.

Construction on a cell phone tower in Bremen, planned for this spring, may face delays.

No charges are anticipated in an incident involving four trucks falling through thin ice Friday on the Kennebec River in Dresden, according to Sgt. Daryen Grenata of the Maine Marine Patrol, despite the fact that his department was not notified until mid-morning Saturday.

Pastor Les Dancer Jr., formerly of Whitefield, gave his first message Sunday in a church that, a year ago, was headed for ruin. He too, he said, “was a broken man” before he turned his life around several years ago.

The Maine Department of Transportation is planning to upgrade the traffic lights at the intersection of business Route 1 and Biscay Road in Damariscotta. Construction is anticipated to begin during the summer.

For those Lincoln County residents who may have been envious of the snowfall our southern neighbors have been receiving; and for those who were all set with a nice Feb. thaw – things will be changing soon, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). On Mon, afternoon the NWS issued a Winter Storm Watch regarding a storm that is forecast to develop off the New Jersey coast Mon. night and then chug up north, delivering a good slug of snowfall to Lincoln County beginning Tues. afternoon.

In its inaugural round of grants, the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program has awarded nearly $2 million to help 11 public and non-profit groups move forward on important resource protection projects across Maine, including the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset.

Drivers of a box truck and small car received minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident on Rt. 27 in Dresden Monday morning. The collision occurred on the upward slope in Dresden near the Wiscasset town line at about 8:35 a.m.

A thundering overnight storm plunged Boothbay, Bristol and South Bristol into darkness as dozens of downed trees snapped power lines.

The Town of Whitefield faced more legal wrangling this week as developer Paul A. Kelley Jr. filed two motions in Lincoln County Superior Court. The town’s legal representatives answered Tuesday with a request to dismiss.

For most of the hundreds of spectators and volunteers at the annual ice cutting at South Bristol’s Thompson Ice House Museum, the event was a chance to participate in the past.

The Bristol selectmen accepted a petition from 176 voters Feb. 3 seeking to eliminate the town’s highway department and its only employee.