The Lincoln County News

In a crowded Lincoln Academy gymnasium on the evening of Monday, May 13, Newcastle residents voted 71-8 to approve a moratorium on firearm sales permits.

Residents passed six articles in total at a special town meeting held at the Bremen town office on Tuesday, May 7, including amendments to the town’s land use ordinance and shoreland zoning ordinance, permitting authority, and transfer of funds.

espite previous assurances to the public that a decision would be made during a special Whitefield Planning Board meeting the evening of Wednesday, May 1, residents did not hear a resolution on a proposed residential substance abuse treatment facility in Coopers Mills.

In Bristol on Friday, May 3, crews worked together for more than 12 hours to protect the waters around Shaw’s Fish and Lobster Wharf and recover a barge that partially sank that morning.

Patrons of Wiscasset Speedway may have noticed a new addition on the property during the track’s season opener at the end of April. Now calling Wiscasset Speedway home is a replica of what was once known as “the smallest church in the world,” Wiscasset’s Union Church.

The Central Lincoln County YMCA Board of Directors announced it is no longer pursuing the construction of an aquatic center, bringing to a close decades of intermittent efforts to bring a pool to the Damariscotta facility.

An operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, assisted by the Waldoboro Police Department, Waldoboro EMS, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, and Maine State Police, resulted in the arrests of two individuals on drug trafficking charges on the afternoon of Thursday, April 25.

The set list is chosen. The songs have been practiced. The members of Classic Harmony are ready for their debut performance on Tuesday, May 7 at The Second Congregational Church of Newcastle.

The project to restore the Lincoln Academy bell tower and replace the historic belfry is underway, and will hopefully be completed before the start of school in September.
(Audrey Hufnagel is a member of the Talon staff and probably contributed to breaking to bell tower by ringing the bell to celebrate multiple cross country championships. This article appears through a content-sharing agreement with The Eagle’s Talon.)

Bremen voters will convene for a special town meeting to consider amendments to the town’s land use and shoreland zoning ordinances at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7 at the town office.