The Lincoln County Democratic Committee’s annual family cookout and lobster bake featured three of the party’s growing field of gubernatorial candidates.

Lobster boats cranked into high gear in Pemaquid Harbor on Sunday, Aug. 13 for the 31st annual Merritt Brackett Lobster Boat Races – a competitive event that is “serious fun,” said co-founder Donald Drisko.

A presentation by Coastal Kids Preschool during the Great Salt Bay School Committee meeting Wednesday, Aug. 9 was “just the beginning of a discussion” about a potential partnership for public pre-kindergarten, according to Executive Director Mimi Reeves.

Good things come to those who wait, LincolnHealth President and CEO Jim Donovan told a crowd of LincolnHealth officials and community members during a celebration at The 1812 Farm in Bristol Mills the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 1. The event celebrated the kickoff of the public fundraising campaign for the hospital’s $13.7 million outpatient health center, which is slated for completion in summer 2018.

On Tuesday, Aug. 1, the schooner Harvey Gamage made a quick stop back home at Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol, where the late South Bristol shipbuilder built the vessel in 1973.

After a legal review and extensive discussion, the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 1 to schedule an open town meeting to reconsider the planning department budget.

After the town received three separate inquiries on the subject in the past week, a majority of the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen spoke against pursuing a moratorium on commercial development Tuesday, Aug. 1.

The Wiscasset Public Safety Council has met monthly since its formation in April to facilitate the flow of information between the community and the ambulance, fire, and police departments, Chair Holly Giles said. “To say we are appalled” at the conditions in the departments “is an understatement,” Giles said.

The first generation of Thai women to benefit from the shelter and access to education provided by the Lincoln County-based nonprofit Friends of Thai Daughters will join supporters at the Darrows Barn in Damariscotta on Friday, Aug. 4 for the organization’s annual fundraiser.

As the interim superintendent of AOS 93, Jim Hodgkin knows the most important work during the school year will not be accomplished within the central office, but rather in the classrooms in each of the five schools that make up the Central Lincoln County School System.

World-renowned mezzo-soprano and Damariscotta native Kate Aldrich insists she does not get mobbed at, say, Renys or Metcalf’s by Lincoln County residents wanting her to sign autographs. But in bigger cities around the world, Aldrich has been pursued after performances by “fangirls – a very colorful type of person, to put it kindly and mildly,” she said in a recent phone interview from the Alna home she shares with her husband and 6-year-old daughter. “In Asia, it’s crazy.”

Almost four months after appearing before the Damariscotta Planning Board to discuss his plans for a commercial project along Main Street, a Portland developer has filed a site plan review application to build three commercial buildings with room for a total of six businesses.

The preservation of Bristol’s unique character was the focus of concerns expressed by residents during a public hearing about an ordinance to temporarily ban recreational marijuana-related businesses and about the use of electronic signs in the town.