The Lincoln County News

While many tend to huddle inside during the winter, the students at Bristol Consolidated School and Whitefield Elementary School are embracing the cold and snow, trekking through opportunities to compete, play, and be healthy this January.

Dresden First Selectman Trudy Foss will resign from the position because she is moving to Richmond, she said Tuesday, Jan. 21. Her last meeting will be at the end of February.

In a 27-7 vote, Dresden voters approved the appropriation of $50,000 from surplus to buy land at 540 Gardiner Road, next to the town office, during a special town meeting Wednesday, Jan. 15.

A snowmobiler is alright after going through the ice on Biscay Pond in Bremen the morning of Friday, Jan. 17, when temperatures were in the teens.

Friends and colleagues remember Damariscotta businessman James H. “Jimmy” Phillips as someone who would do anything for his friends and ask nothing in return.

The Nobleboro Fire Department has a new chief and deputy chief.

A 2019 experiment on the mud flats of Bremen’s Broad Cove did not show any benefit from “brushing” or “netting” techniques for clam populations, likely as a result of water temperatures and booming predator populations.

A new farm, Veggies to Table, has cropped up in Newcastle to battle food insecurity in Lincoln County.

The Damariscotta Planning Board, on Monday, Jan. 6, recommended for approval a historic preservation ordinance that would encompass the Main Street historic district.

Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service Inc. will ask its six member towns to nearly double their contributions this year, but expects the requests to level off going forward.

The Dresden Board of Selectmen’s proposal to buy a 1-acre parcel next to the town office will go to voters at a special town meeting at Pownalborough Hall at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 15.