The Lincoln County News

Over 40 people attended a public hearing at the central fire station in Whitefield the evening of Wednesday, April 10 armed with questions and concerns about a residential substance abuse treatment facility that is trying to make its mark in Coopers Mills.

Jefferson voters approved all 31 town warrant articles at the town’s annual town meeting by referendum on Tuesday, April 16, including a municipal budget of $1,376,164 and the use of $100,000 from the Jefferson Village School’s long-term maintenance fund for a special-education-related project at the school.

Four individuals have been charged with two counts of arson each following multiple fires in Dresden and Woolwich in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 14.

After a year of evaluating options to restructure AOS 93, voters in Bremen, Damariscotta, and Newcastle will likely decide whether to convert the Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District into an RSU, or regional school unit, in June.

A structure fire at 412 East Pond Road in Nobleboro the evening of Sunday, April 7 has left a family displaced.

The sun did not quite go dark in the Midcoast on Monday, April 8, but residents across Lincoln County gathered to watch the moon pass over the sun as Maine experienced its first total solar eclipse since 1963.

A crowded hearing in the Somerville Elementary School gymnasium ended in the resignation of now-former planning board Chair John Bergen on the evening of Tuesday, April 9.

In a business partnership, in which communication, compatible personalities, and trust are of the utmost importance, it takes a special kind of bond to ensure success.

A Friday, April 5 house fire on South Clary Road in Jefferson resulted in the complete destruction of a home over the course of a day, said Jefferson Fire Chief Darin Walker. No residents were in the home at the time and there were no injuries, he said.

The Maine Department of Transportation is planning reconstruction and rehabilitation of Damariscotta’s Main Street (Route 1B) at an undetermined date. The work would begin 0.01 miles east of the road’s intersection with Church Street and continue for 2.25 miles northeast.

In a continuation of a discussion ongoing since October 2023, the Jefferson School Committee voted to ban “sexually explicit” material from the school library during its meeting on Monday, April 1.

Students participating in Whitefield Elementary School’s drama club are sporting their creative sides as they rehearse a play that they created about the circus during meetings Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.