The Lincoln County News

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.

Work on the new fish ladder at the Bristol Mills Dam is progressing and should be complete by the beginning of winter, according to the contractor.

After visiting the Bremen waterfront in mid-July and an East Boothbay marine lab last week, U.S. Senate candidate Sara Gideon returned to Lincoln County for a roundtable discussion on how the federal government can better serve veterans at Waldoboro’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4525, Tuesday, Aug. 11.

The Bristol Planning Board will soon consider two permit applications for a 12.7-acre solar farm spread across two properties, with the possibility of a at least one more application to come for a separate solar farm.

Dresden Elementary School will use a combination of in-person and online instruction when it reopens, pending approval from the RSU 2 Board of Directors.