The Lincoln County News

E.J. Hunt, of Newcastle, won the statewide Patriot’s Pen essay contest, a Veterans of Foreign Wars program, this year.

During Bristol’s first ever town meeting by referendum on Monday, March 15, 184 voters approved all articles on the warrant, including the municipal and education budgets, funds for the completion of the Bristol Mills fish ladder project, and the creation of a committee to review the town’s comprehensive plan, by wide margins.

New COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County residents ticked up in the past week to 16, up from 12 last week, but are still well below the new case numbers seen during the height of the winter surge of the respiratory illness.

The Bremen, Damariscotta, Nobleboro, and Waldoboro town offices have closed after a shared employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to officials from the four towns.

State Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos is sponsoring a bill that aims to end qualified immunity for police officers in Maine, but Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett says such a move could “cripple public safety.”

As of Feb. 1, Lincoln County has a K-9 team of its own for the first time in six months.

A developer wants to build a 12-acre, 3.5-megawatt solar farm across Bristol Road from the Bristol-South Bristol Transfer Station, the third and likely last major solar installation proposed for Bristol in recent months.

New cases of COVID-19 in Lincoln County residents continue to stay low, with 12 new cases reported by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the past week.

The residents of a home at 1817 Alna Road in Alna escaped unhurt when a fire broke out at the home early Wednesday, March 10.

A 71-year-old Alna man is in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a collision with a loaded dump truck on Route 32 in Jefferson the afternoon of Monday, March 8.