The Lincoln County News

A volunteer effort to share the stories of servicemen killed in World War II recently completed a profile on a local man.

State Rep. Richard Bradstreet, R-Vassalboro, is seeking a third term in Maine House District 80, which includes the Lincoln County town of Somerville.

After three weeks of work, Newcastle artist Jenny Arter recently completed a giant mural on the side of the Oysterhead Pizza Co. building in Damariscotta.

The RSU 12 Board of Directors adopted the district’s school reopening plan and school calendar Thursday, Aug. 13.

The Alna Board of Selectmen, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, declined a request from residents to change the rules for public comment in order to allow more informed participation.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported no new cases of COVID-19 and one more recovery among  Lincoln County residents in the past week.

In the summer of 1975, Gerald Ford was president, gasoline cost a little more than 50 cents a gallon, and out-of-state visitors flocked to Maine’s beaches, lakes, and forests. But that rainy summer was far from idyllic. Lincoln County recorded a murder, one that has remained unsolved in the nearly five decades that have passed.

A 55-year-old Thomaston man and a 26-year-old Thomaston woman died in a head-on crash on Route 17 in Jefferson late Friday, Aug. 14.

Midcoast Conservancy is warning Damariscotta Lake residents and visitors of cyanobacteria on the south arm of the lake, but a state official says the concentrations do not appear high enough to cause toxic conditions.

A Waldoboro man was flown to a Bangor hospital after crashing while fleeing from law enforcement on Manktown Road, Thursday, Aug. 13.

The Maine Warden Service is investigating a fatality on Pemaquid Pond in Nobleboro.