The Lincoln County News

The RSU 40 Board of Directors diverged from the recommendation of the district’s budget committee on the evening of Thursday, April 11, voting to approve a budget of $37,619,219 for the 2024-2025 school year, a $1,619,966 or 4.5% increase from the current school year’s adopted budget of $35,999,253.

Traffic on Route 1 in Waldoboro was shifted to the side for nearly two hours the afternoon of Sunday, April 14 in an effort for drivers to avoid the scene of a flipped dump truck.

A new prekindergarten program planned for next year at Great Salt Bay Community School coupled with rising special education needs in the community are the major drivers behind the $7,976,984 budget approved by the school committee at its meeting on Wednesday, April 10, said AOS 93 Business Manager Peter Nielsen.

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.