The Lincoln County News

Edgecomb voters rejected the 2020-2021 education budget in their annual town meeting by referendum Saturday, Aug. 29.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Lincoln County’s first new case of COVID-19 in 22 days on Saturday, Aug. 29.

Thirty-seven years ago, while still completing his surgical residency, Ed White visited the area and introduced himself to orthopedic surgeons along the Midcoast. A few years later, White came to Miles Memorial Hospital and St. Andrews Hospital as the hospitals’ first full-time orthopedic surgeon.

Former two-term state Rep. Jeffrey Pierce, R-Dresden, hopes to regain his seat in Maine House District 53: Arrowsic, Dresden, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Woolwich, and part of Richmond.

State Rep. Allison Hepler, D-Woolwich, is seeking a second term representing Maine House District 53: Arrowsic, Dresden, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Woolwich, and part of Richmond.

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage — who plans to seek the Blaine House again in 2022 — fired up Lincoln County Republicans during a rally in Damariscotta on Saturday, Aug. 22.

An 8-year-old Waldoboro girl in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia has a new playhouse, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Fire destroyed a vacant one-story house on Depot Street in Waldoboro the evening of Thursday, Aug. 27. There were no injuries.

With 68.3% of the vote, Peter Murphy won the August #LCNme365 photo contest with his picture of his sternman on his lobster boat at sunrise.

Edgecomb voters will vote on the education and municipal budgets in the annual town meeting by referendum Saturday, Aug. 29. The vote comes as the selectmen urge residents to defeat aspects of the education budget and the school committee defends it as tax-neutral.

Wiscasset voters will choose among six candidates to fill three seats on the board of selectmen Tuesday, Sept. 8.