The Lincoln County News

Donald A. “Don” Hastings, 88, a firefighter from New York who, upon his retirement to Jefferson in 1991, contributed to the modernization of training for volunteer firefighters in Lincoln County, died Friday, Jan. 4. 

Around 25 Damariscotta residents, business owners, and others attended a community conversation with the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen to discuss drafts of two marijuana ordinances Wednesday, Jan. 2.

Waldoboro will survey its residents about the possibility of a community center in the town.

Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson will resign effective Feb. 8 after four-plus years in the role. She is leaving for a position as town manager of Houlton, in Aroostook County.

A Waldoboro seamstress uses her business to help children succeed in the classroom, sewing weighted “lap pads” – small blankets with weighted beads that help with anxiety and fidgeting – and giving them to schools.

A part-time resident of Westport Island is on a mission to rescue street dogs – and most any other animal in need – in Costa Rica.

A Waldoboro woman was taken to LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus after an SUV rollover on Manktown Road in Waldoboro the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 4.

Whitefield veteran Hallis “Hal” Thayer traveled to Washington, D.C. and the Arlington National Cemetery in December with the nonprofit Wreaths Across America to place thousands of wreaths at memorials and veterans’ graves.

Glenn Chadbourne, a Newcastle artist best known for his illustrations of Stephen King books, has illustrated a special edition of the thriller “Bird Box,” which has become a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich.

Readers selected Dennis Boyd, of Damariscotta, as the winner of the 2018 #LCNme365 photo contest with his photograph of Parsons Creek in Edgecomb.

The Clary Lake Association has completed repairs to the Clary Lake Dam that have restored the lake’s water level after several years of low levels and frustration for lakefront property owners.

The new district attorney for the Midcoast took the oath of office during a ceremony at The Samoset Resort in Rockport on New Year’s Day.

Gov. Paul LePage, in his last days in office, pardoned former Rep. Jeffrey K. “Jeff” Pierce, R-Dresden, of a 35-year-old felony conviction for drug trafficking.

A single-wide mobile home at 45 Orff Road in Jefferson burned down early New Year’s Day. The sole resident was not home.