The Lincoln County News

A pair of lifelong friends from Bristol found freedom in hiking an average of 20 miles a day – 352 football fields of all kinds of terrain – for six months this year.

While more than 7,000 Central Maine Power Co. customers in Lincoln County are without power after a windstorm early Friday, Nov. 1, “a lot of good progress” was made getting roads reopened to traffic, according to Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency Director Casey Stevens.

A Bremen woman’s photo of a dock surrounded by fall foliage handily won the October #LCNme365 photo contest with 69.1% of votes.

Somerville artist Mary Winchenbach, of Tirdy Works, was the center of attention at the town’s fire station Thursday, Oct. 24, as a television crew filmed her, her fellow residents, and a giant box of moose poop.

The committee behind the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta is losing a couple of key organizers and “begging” for new volunteers to help run the wildly popular festival.

A company owned by Nobleboro oyster entrepreneur Brendan Parsons is applying for a new 20-year, 12.98-acre aquaculture lease in the Damariscotta River.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a new hemp program, days after Maine officials went to bat for a Whitefield farm that lost its financing and insurance over a lack of clarity in federal hemp regulations.

A single-vehicle crash on Route 1 in Wiscasset sent one person to the hospital and closed the road to traffic the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 26.

An SUV rear-ended a box truck on Route 1 in Newcastle the morning of Monday, Oct. 28, mangling the Jeep but causing no serious injuries.

Bluefields Farm, of Whitefield, will receive a conservation award next month for practices that include a successful initiative to attract wild bees and other pollinators to its blueberry fields.

The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office says a fire at a vacant building in Waldoboro on Saturday, Oct. 26 was intentionally set.

The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands is planning a timber harvest at Dodge Point, a state property in Newcastle popular with hikers, this winter and next.