A loon entangled with fishing line was rescued from Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro on Aug. 2. LCSO deputy Brian Collamore was called to property off Vannah Road to investigate a criminal mischief complaint, and discovered the loon on the sandy shore of the causeway near the boat launch.

Like a huge vertical jigsaw puzzle, the steeple of the historic Damariscotta Baptist Church is beginning to take shape.

“We pre-cut the timbers and mortised them. Now we are putting them in place and fastening them with wooden pegs,” said Scott Lewis.

A Waldoboro man escaped serious injury after his vehicle veered off the road in Newcastle late Friday afternoon.

A truck driver for the Monhegan Island Inn was rescued from the roaring surf on the east side of the island Sunday by an alert fisherman.

The use of federal stimulus money to clean up carbon emissions from a range of public and privately owned vehicles has a government watchdog group asking whether this is an appropriate use of tax dollars.

A lawmaker accused of using his position to gain preferential treatment will receive a written reprimand, the House Ethics Committee decided Tuesday. The committee found insufficient evidence that the actions of Rep. Richard Blanchard, D-Old Town, tried to intimidate officers who responded to his camp on Cold Stream Pond in Enfield July 4 to investigate […]

Firefighters have contained a structure fire off Crummett Mountain Rd. in Somerville.

Parents Andrea and Gary Tibbetts Jr. are proud to announce the birth of baby boy Joseph Clarke Tibbetts.

Damariscotta has secured grant funding and will begin renovating a section of Church St. later this month.

The Maine State Warden Service reported no injuries resulted from a two-boat collision that occurred on Pemaquid Pond Sunday night.

The state’s new Board of Corrections, which was formed a year ago to implement a host of changes in the county jail system, passed its first major milestone this month with the passage of budgets for all 15 of the county’s jails.

Students in a University of Maine Cooperative Extension (UMCE) program grew broccoli, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, beans, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, peas, onions and herbs to give to local food banks in Waldoboro and Rockland.

Somerville Fire and mutual aid fire departments including Jefferson and Waldoboro are responding at this hour to the scene of a barn fire in Somerville, at an undisclosed location on Crummett Mountain Road off Rt. 17.

Mark Durbin, Sasha Kutsy, and sister Marabelle of Washington are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Simon.