The trial of Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth L. Hatch III on charges of sexual abuse of three underage girls, as well as giving drugs to two of those girls, is underway in Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta.

A barn at 222 Hunts Meadow Road in Whitefield that was used as a welding workshop and a storage space for “upward of $50,000” in welding equipment and ATVs burned to the ground early Tuesday, Nov. 14, according to Whitefield Deputy Fire Chief Tom Feeney. There were no injuries, as the building was uninhabited at the time.

Wiscasset voters rejected the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen’s proposal to repeal the historic preservation ordinance, 536-437, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 7.

As of last month, the Wiscasset veterans monument contains the names of 10 more veterans, from the Vietnam War to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

For more than a decade, Lincoln County Television Executive Director Mary Ellen Crowley has been instrumental in the nonprofit public-access station’s evolution, from an upgrade to allow 24-hour programming to a move into a permanent building.

Lincoln County Planner Robert Faunce gave a presentation on senior housing, multiple-family housing, and open-space subdivisions during a work session of the Whitefield Planning Board on Wednesday, Oct. 18.

After 17 years of free frights and delights, the creators of Haunted Castle’s Keep, the annual haunted house in New Harbor, have decided to hang up their cloaks.

The Great Salt Bay School Committee voted Wednesday, Oct. 11 to raise the hourly pay for substitute drivers from $13 to $20. The decision follows two meetings during which parents questioned the committee about bus capacity, bus routes, and overcrowding.

The town of Alna’s historic buildings – a 228-year-old meetinghouse and two one-room schoolhouses – need repairs to address existing issues and prevent more damage.

The Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel on Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage and Removal received updates on the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation in Wiscasset and the prospects for removal, as well as a state inspector’s update, during its annual meeting at the Wiscasset Community Center on Tuesday, Oct. 10.

After receiving feedback from area residents at a public hearing Sept. 18, a Portland developer has revised his plan for one of the buildings at 435 Main St. in Damariscotta to more closely resemble traditional New England architecture.

Lincoln County’s draft 2018 budget totals $11,546,877, an increase of $195,031 or 1.72 percent from the 2017 budget.