The Lincoln County News

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first death of a Lincoln County resident from COVID-19 on Tuesday, July 28.

James Weldon Johnson’s legacy lives on through the lyrics he penned in 1899 for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called the Black national anthem, but his life ended tragically on June 26, 1938 in Wiscasset, when his car was struck by an oncoming train.

Whitefield voters passed all but one of the articles on the warrant at annual town meeting, Saturday, July 18.

Although the project remains in an “evaluation” stage, the national nonprofit Volunteers of America has a $6.2 million plan to turn Waldoboro’s vacant A.D. Gray School into 32 units of affordable senior housing.

About 29 voters approved Dresden’s $1,014,060 budget during the open portion of annual town meeting, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, the morning of Saturday, July 18.

A fire at a new restaurant in Waldoboro village early Thursday, July 23 damaged the restaurant and a pharmacy at 9 Friendship St. and forced the evacuation of the four-story building.

During the fourth vote on the question in 37 years, Westport Island voters accepted a section of North End Road as a town way during annual town meeting Saturday, July 18.

After an easy victory in the Democratic primary July 14, U.S. Senate candidate Sara Gideon made the Bremen waterfront her first campaign stop as the party’s nominee.

About 33 Damariscotta voters approved the municipal budget during annual town meeting in the Great Salt Bay Community School gymnasium on Wednesday, July 15.

Lincoln County has five more cases of COVID-19, the largest week-over-week increase since the disease reached the county. State officials would not say whether the cases are linked.

The operator and passenger of a motorcycle suffered severe injuries in a crash on Main Street in Damariscotta the afternoon of Wednesday, July 15.

Jenny Milchman always knew she wanted to write a novel set on an island in Maine.

A pickup rollover on Route 17 in Somerville sent the driver to the hospital Monday, July 20.

A 2017 graduate of Lincoln Academy who recently completed her junior year at Bates College in Lewiston has won a prestigious scholarship awarded to students with a commitment to public service – the same scholarship won by her father in 1994.