The Lincoln County News

Edgecomb voters voted down proposals to allow marijuana businesses and debated education and harbor issues during a five-hour-plus annual town meeting Saturday, May 18.

Newcastle’s fire chief suspects a heat lamp or light as the cause of a fire that destroyed a chicken coop and killed two chickens the morning of Monday, May 20.

An electrical fire at a Boothbay Harbor apartment building early Saturday, May 18 displaced seven people, but all escaped the building safely.

Two Amish businessmen have opened Whitefield Metal Sales, a manufacturer of metal roofing, siding, and trim, at 69 Mills Road in Whitefield.

Newcastle’s oldest resident, retired U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Eugene Walsh, 102, became the oldest veteran to travel to Washington, D.C. with Honor Flight Maine last month.

Westport Island artist Jerry Day Mason celebrated her 100th birthday with about 150 guests at her home May 4.

The town of Alna will list the old town office and 2 acres of land for $130,000, for sale by owner, as soon as possible.

State Rep. Michael G. “Mick” Devin, D-Newcastle, has been on medical leave from the Legislature since Feb. 5 while seeking and undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder related to his military service.

Twenty-one voters from Bremen, Newcastle, and Damariscotta, including the seven members of the Great Salt Bay School Committee, approved the Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District’s $6,099,967.08 budget during the district’s annual budget meeting Wednesday, May 8.

A Whitefield author and small-business owner uses her experiences as a photographer and former lighthouse keeper to connect people with nature.

The story begins about 50 years ago when a Connecticut man saved two men fishing in a canoe that capsized on a lake in early spring. He brought the men to his house and warmed them up with coffee and blankets. Cut to April 2019, those men’s savior was himself rescued when his boat capsized on Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson.