The Lincoln County News

Dresden’s Freedom Center will no longer provide transitional housing or focus on addiction recovery after a transfer of ownership to Oakland-based Kingdom Life Church. Instead, the building will facilitate marriage retreats and other events.

The owners of a medical cannabis retail shop and cultivation facility in Gardiner want to move into an existing barn and build greenhouses on Gardiner Road in Dresden, near the Pittston town line.

After a contentious public hearing Thursday, Sept. 17, the Newcastle Board of Selectmen has canceled a Sept. 29 special town meeting on a new zoning code and will instead send the code to a referendum vote on Election Day, Nov. 3.

Local firefighters journeyed across Hockomock Channel on Tuesday, Sept. 22 to battle a brush fire on Bremen Long Island.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lincoln County residents on Monday, Sept. 21.

Michael Lemelin, R-Chelsea, is running to represent Maine House District 88, which includes Chelsea, Jefferson, Whitefield, and part of Nobleboro.

Chris Hamilton, D-Whitefield, is running to represent Maine House District 88, which includes Chelsea, Jefferson, Whitefield, and part of Nobleboro.

In a near-unanimous vote, 156 Wiscasset residents approved the parks and recreation budget during a special town meeting Thursday, Sept. 17. Although voters had approved the same budget at the annual town meeting by referendum Sept. 8, Thursday’s vote was necessary to resolve an error on the ballot.

The Deck House School, a private boarding school for teenage boys in Edgecomb, recently sold after sitting empty for two years.

Jeffrey Evangelos, I-Friendship, recaptured the Maine House District 91 seat in 2018 and is looking to defend it in November.

Former Waldoboro Selectman Lowell Wallace, a Republican, is taking on independent state Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos, of Friendship, hoping to become the new representative for Maine House District 91.