The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen will send a letter to the Damariscotta Planning Board to express safety concerns about a proposal to build Dollar General and Sherwin-Williams stores at the corner of Main Street and Biscay Road.

The Bremen Board of Selectmen will hold special town meetings Thursday, Feb. 23 to address changes to the town’s clam ordinance, a shortfall in the secondary education budget, and a potential change in the town’s fiscal year.

A Chicago company with a mission to “design and construct enriching, sustainable homes worldwide” will not have an opportunity to build on Wiscasset’s Mason Station properties.

Maine Department of Transportation Region 2 Traffic Engineer David Allen presented the department’s findings from a review of Bristol Road speed limits during the Wednesday, Feb. 15 meeting of the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen.

Edgecomb voters will soon decide whether to place a temporary ban on floating homes while the town develops regulations to govern them. On Feb. 14, the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to hold a special town meeting to consider the moratorium.

The Wiscasset School Committee could soon vote on whether to move sixth grade from Wiscasset Elementary School to Wiscasset Middle High School for the 2017-2018 school year – a move administrators say is the right thing to do.

The Central Lincoln County YMCA plans to give land near the Y to Damariscotta to help the town remedy inadvertent violations of grant agreements from the 1980s.

A Bristol Consolidated School seventh-grader is the 2017 Lincoln County Spelling Bee champion – a title Isaac Wyer clinched in the fifth round of the competition at BCS on Wednesday, Feb. 15.

After 11 years with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine, a Lincoln Academy graduate and former Nobleboro resident was named the executive director of Make-A-Wish Maine in January.

A breeder of olde English bulldogges on Hanna Lane in Bristol raises the animals in a family atmosphere and has earned recognition for its work. After eight years in business, Wicked Good Bulldogges is gaining new recognition for breeding the mascot of Yale University.

Full-time Wiscasset police officers will have the authority to arrest individuals outside town lines after the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen’s 4-1 vote on Tuesday, Feb. 14.

The Waldoboro Planning Board voted unanimously to approve an application for a medical marijuana caregiver storefront and “high-end functional glass boutique” during a meeting the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 8.

Several Colby & Gale Inc. customers received a Valentine’s Day surprise Tuesday, Feb. 14, when the business’s delivery drivers showed up to fill their oil tanks free of charge.

During a career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Allan “Chip” Teel has been able to experience multiple sides of the health-care industry, including as a primary-care physician and a co-founder of seven home-like assisted-living facilities in Lincoln County. Now, in his new role as Eastern Maine Health Systems’ medical director for clinical systems innovation, Teel, of Nobleboro, hopes to fulfill his mission to improve the way society cares for its elders.