The Lincoln County News

With help from local volunteers, the county’s law enforcement agencies and the Lincoln County Communications Center are offering a new service that involves daily check-ins on disabled and elderly residents.

A co-owner of Moody’s Diner who grew up with the business and spent virtually his entire working life there died Feb. 8 at his home on Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro.

A New Hampshire developer plans to build a 3-megawatt solar farm on more than 10 acres on North Nobleboro Road in Waldoboro. A planning consultant to the town believes it would be the largest solar farm in the county.

A Nobleboro woman and her best friend flew to Los Angeles in January to compete on “Wheel of Fortune” during the long-running game show’s “Girlfriend Getaways” week. The episode will air on Channel 8, WMTW, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 19.

More than 250 people packed the Wells-Hussey American Legion Post No. 42 in Damariscotta for a bean supper with Sara Gideon, a Democratic candidate to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, Monday, Feb. 10.

Despite some recent public opposition, a historic preservation ordinance will go to a referendum vote in Damariscotta on Tuesday, March 3.

Fourteen students in Medomak Valley High School’s advanced photography class have kept busy taking pictures of students and staff members at the Waldoboro high school, documenting why each and every one of them matters.

The Maine Department of Transportation will extend the 30-mph speed limit on Main Street in Damariscotta from the intersection with School Street to the intersection with Back Meadow Road.

A Wiscasset man was taken to the hospital after another driver ran a stop sign and struck his vehicle at a four-way intersection in Wiscasset on Wednesday, Feb. 12.

The Cable-Burns Applied Technology and Engineering Center at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle sustained heavy water damage after a tree fell onto the building during stormy weather Friday, Feb. 7.