Real innovation in history has occurred at the hands of people who, when faced with insurmountable circumstances, were forced to come up with a solution. The purchase of the Water Witch was not the solution to douse all flames, but it was the engine that drove the formation of what is today the Waldoboro Fire Department.

Robyn Collamore and Brent Willey, of Bristol, are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter, Sidney Susan Willey.

Under a new Maine law that went into effect last year, towns and school districts must now “validate” budgets approved by town and district meetings by approving them at the polls in each individual town.

On June 1 U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced that ElderTide Farm in Dresden will receive a grant of $80,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Small Business Innovation Research Program. The funding will be used for product research and development.

Peak season for Maine’s signature bivalve, the clam, starts now, but the price for the famous mollusk isn’t what it used to be, according to diggers and dealers. The speculation among local diggers is they won’t make $100 per bushel this year.

A Lincoln County Superior Court jury Wednesday convicted Richard “Dik” Brackett, 66, of seven charges stemming from an investigation into allegations he was selling and trading high-powered painkillers for sex.

A Waldoboro man was arrested early Friday morning following a multi-agency raid on his Friendship Rd. residence, where police seized over one hundred pot plants in various stages of growth, processed marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, Hydrocodone pills and heroin.

Scott Libby and Sarah Falconer of New Harbor are proud to announce the arrival of Claire Edwina Libby.

Bristol Consolidated School 7th grader Shawn Burns of Round Pond spent more than six hours hauling traps on Saturday afternoon, but he didn’t make a cent, nor did he expect to.

The investigation continues into the head-on collision on Union Road that took the life of a 63-year-old Waldoboro man June 4.

The three Lincoln Academy Climate Action Club members could hardly contain their glee when they brought their first load of “green” bags to the Maine Coast Book Shop & Café last Thursday. It was the culmination of two years in planning and the satisfaction of the project finally materializing had a positively giddying effect on the three.

Proud parents James Parlin and Heather Dakin of Waldoboro are pleased to announce the arrival of their twin girls, Kylee Mae and Lexi Jane Parlin.

Ellen and Kyle Westhaver of Round Pond are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Talon Fin.

Approximately 200 Regional School Unit 12 voters met in the Whitefield School gym Tuesday and slashed $1.8 million from the proposed budget. The cut, according to one administrator, eliminates 20 teachers.

The battle was pitched between education, with parents’ pleas to prioritize schoolchildren, and the plight of taxpayers, especially the elderly and workers threatened by job loss.