The Lincoln County News

Bristol residents dispatched with the 48-article annual town meeting warrant in two and a half hours while posing questions to representatives from Bristol Consolidated School and the AOS 93 office about the education budget.

Following nearly three hours of contentious discussion between Nobleboro voters, the select board, the budget committee, and the school committee, residents approved a $5 million education budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year at the town’s annual meeting on Saturday, March 16.

Damariscotta will have a new company plowing its roads next winter after a vote to mutually end its contract with longtime winter maintenance provider Hagar Enterprises Inc. two years early on Wednesday, March 6.

On Saturday, March 9, Lincoln Academy Robotics Team 8030A won the Maine State Robotics Championship, becoming the first Lincoln Academy team in history to do so.
(Connor Parson is a member of the 8030A state champion robotics team and a staff writer for The Eagle’s Talon. This article appears through a content-sharing agreement with the Talon.)

Changes are on the horizon for the town of South Bristol after voters approved every article on the warrant at the annual town meeting the evening of Tuesday, March 12.

Like many Midcoast food producers, Ellie Young and Derek DeGeer started their businesses as small passion projects. Young, of Cozy Cove Microbloomery in South Bristol, started growing microgreens and mushrooms as a hobby with her young daughter. DeGeer, of Hootenanny Breads in Nobleboro, began baking for friends in a borrowed oven.

The AOS 93 Board discussed updates on restructuring the AOS, joining an Educational Service Center, and hiring a replacement for Superintendent Lynsey Johnston in advance of her June departure at its Tuesday, March 12 meeting.

Citing costs incurred by the shrinking popularity of recycling and the ever-growing volume of trash passing through the Waldoboro Transfer Station, Public Works Director John Daigle is proposing – for the third time in the course of his more than four-decade career – that the town switch to a pay-as-you-throw model for waste disposal. This time, he said, he sees no other way to ensure a viable future for the transfer station.

A Damariscotta man who spent over 50 years involved with Camp Kieve is facing two more lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse in the 1960s and ‘70s. Kieve leadership said last month it has confirmed at least 10 cases involving Bill McCook, and stated the camp has updated policies and procedures to prevent a repeat of the “failures of leadership” that covered up allegations and allowed McCook to stay a volunteer for decades.

The portion of state Route 32 that winds through the Bristol village of Chamberlain reopened to traffic on Wednesday, Feb. 28 after weeks of work by Hagar Enterprises Inc., of Damariscotta.