The Lincoln County News

The town of Somerville may not receive an estimated $20,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds related to the October 2017 windstorm due to the state’s objection to the fire chief’s burning fallen trees.

The Lincoln County News will host the second of three candidates forums this month at the Waldoboro municipal building from 6-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11.

The Clary Lake Association plans to take ownership of the Clary Lake Dam on Friday, Oct. 12 and immediately start work to restore the lake’s water level after seven years of legal wrangling.

The service chief of the Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service for the last 19 years will resign effective Oct. 31, according to board members.

Three business partners are restoring the former Musical Wonder House, on High Street in Wiscasset village, to its past grandeur.

Lifelong Mainer and Harvard graduate Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, is attempting to win the House District 88 seat held by term-limited state Rep. Deborah Sanderson, R-Chelsea, for eight years.

A fire started in the enclosed back porch of a house at 1181 West Alna Road in Alna the morning of Saturday, Oct. 6. No one was hurt in the fire.

A Boothbay Harbor man won the September #LCNme365 photo contest by two votes with his picture of boats in the harbor on a foggy day.

The chair of the Somerville Board of Selectmen abruptly adjourned its Oct. 3 meeting after a resident directed the term “idiot” at one of the selectmen and declined to leave the meeting when asked.

The 12th annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest kicked off with a weigh-off full of both triumph and loss, as one giant pumpkin nearly cracked the event’s record, while another cracked itself en route to the event.