The Lincoln County News

Fifty-two of Lincoln County’s ambulance staff and volunteer first responders received the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on New Year’s Day.

The Alna Board of Selectmen is considering a draft settlement agreement with Jeff Spinney regarding his application for a boat ramp on the Sheepscot River, but some abutters whose names appear on the document say they will not sign it.

The Damariscotta Planning Board unanimously approved a site plan review application for a recreational cannabis storefront and Tier 2 cultivation facility at 639 Main St. on Monday, Jan. 4.

The number of cases of COVID-19 in Lincoln County residents continues to rise steadily, with 29 new cases in the past week, down from the second-highest weekly increase of 41 last week.

Mary Feyler will turn 100 years old on Friday, Jan. 8, and her family and North Nobleboro community want to recognize the occasion, despite the constraints of COVID-19.

Gage York, the Nobleboro teenager who suffered critical injuries in a December crash, is now awake and talking, according to his grandmother.

A diagonal corridor, 8,275 square feet in area, slices between two homes on Fogler Road, on the shore of Biscay Pond. Neither the Weston Memorial Spring nor the narrow strip of land on which it sits belongs to either homeowner. It belongs to the town and the townspeople of Bremen.

The Massasoit Engine Co., of Damariscotta, recently restored its 1898 Rumsey hose reel. The fire company was not expecting it to be ready until May 2021, but restoration work was completed early, and the company picked it up three days before Christmas.

A 41-year-old traveling pastor died when his bus-turned-camper fell off jack stands while he was working on the rear brakes in Waldoboro on Sunday, Jan. 3.

Two Bridges Regional Jail has two cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, Jan. 4 — one in an employee and one in an inmate, according to a press release from the jail.

Firefighters quickly knocked down a kitchen fire at 21 West Side Road on Barter’s Island, Boothbay, the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 31. The occupants of the home exited safely, but a dog and a cat died of smoke inhalation.

Although adjustments needed to be made due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are thrilled that the GSB Students Investigate program continued for its fourth year.