The Lincoln County News

Lobstermen expressed a mix of frustration and acceptance upon hearing the state’s new plan to protect North American right whales during a meeting in Waldoboro on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Scientists from the Downeast Institute and Bremen shellfish harvesters were on the flats Friday, Nov. 1 for the latest step in an experiment that aims to determine the impact of “brushing” on local clam populations.

Lincoln Academy students exchanged ideas with students from the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center at the first Project Share Day on Monday, Nov. 4.

Jefferson firefighters quickly put out flames at a trailer on Sennett Road the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 7. No one was hurt in the fire.

Although work continues on a few parts of the project, a large crowd gathered Thursday, Oct. 31 in pouring rain to celebrate the near-completion of the Head Tide Dam modification project.

LincolnHealth will demolish the Teel House on its Miles Campus in Damariscotta at the end of November to make room for parking.

“If we still didn’t have the right to vote, it sure would be a different country,” Beth Maxwell said, imagining what that country would look like while standing on the Wiscasset common Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Newcastle voters elected a lifelong resident to fill a vacant seat on the board of selectmen in an uncontested special election Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Damariscotta voters approved a series of ordinances and ordinance amendments to regulate medical and recreational marijuana businesses Tuesday, Nov. 5, clearing the way for a variety of cannabis-based businesses to open when the new rules take effect in January.

Two men were treated and released at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a rollover on Middle Road in Dresden the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 4.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen voted 4-0 to deny Lincoln Academy’s request for an abatement of property taxes for eight dorm parent apartments Monday, Oct. 28.

A Newcastle farm lost a barn, as well as two haflinger horses, six miniature donkeys, and a pickup truck, in a fire at 116 Lynch Road early Friday, Nov. 1.