An alternative use for expensive thermal imaging cameras area fire departments now use for fires could well end up helping homeowners during a potential heating crisis this winter.

A free responsible seller training session for owners, managers and employees of stores and businesses in Lincoln County that sell alcohol will take place on Wed., Nov. 5, from 12:30-5 p.m., at Bintliff’s Ocean Grille in Edgecomb.

The second 2008 candidate forum hosted by The Lincoln County News took place on Oct. 22, and the remaining candidates in the county appeared and voiced their views on the issues important to Mainers going to the polls on Tues., Nov. 4.

A Jefferson resident and business owner faces up to $500,000 in fines and up to eight years imprisonment for tax evasion and impeding the Internal Revenue Service as a result of an Oct. 15 verdict from the U.S. District Court.

The Fed Up With Taxes Coalition, which advocates for the repeal of a beverage tax enacted by the legislature in April, continues to collect robust donations from a range of sources, most of them restaurant chains or beverage peddlers.

Wiscasset Town Clerk Sandy Johnson was arrested last Thursday on a class B charge of theft by deception related to an undisclosed sum of money believed to be connected with motor vehicle registrations.

Like the famed swallows returning to Capistrano, pumpkins large and small made their way back to their ancestral homes on Sunday, in this case Pinkham’s Plantation in Damariscotta, for the first annual Pumpkin Round Up.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is always ready to inform the public about a scam.

Damariscotta’s Steven Akeley, recently opened Akeley Equine Dentistry, a business servicing the equine world throughout Maine.

A smoky two-alarm fire occurred in a farmhouse at 318 Pond Rd. in Newcastle at around 2 p.m. on Oct. 28.

Tracy and Michael Fleming of Woodville are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Fleming to Allan Roberts of Damariscotta, son of Paula and Chris Roberts, also of Damariscotta.

A completely revamped website for The Lincoln County News premiered Oct. 9 with a fresh look and a new domain name.

“Not quite there but pretty close” is how accountant Fred Brewer described progress on an audit of the Boothbay Region Humane Society. Brewer met with officers and began working on the financial review in June.

Damariscotta Bank & Trust President Thomas Finn asserts there are reasons why the community banks are weathering problems that have leveled some of the nation’s financial giants.