The Lincoln County News

Harry Emmons, 101, was recognized as Damariscotta’s eldest resident and presented with the town’s Boston Post Cane on Thursday, July 26.

The Maine Department of Transportation has installed a new plastic barrier at the intersection of Route 1 and Belvedere Road in Damariscotta in an attempt to reduce the number of collisions at the intersection.

The veteran political analyst Charles E. Cook Jr. talked about the 2016 presidential election and prospects for this year’s midterm elections during the Lincoln Theater’s annual meeting Thursday, July 26.

A filmmaker interviewed Newcastle artist Glenn Chadbourne for a documentary about blockbuster author Stephen King on Monday, July 30.

The tradition began in 1962, only 15 years after the department’s founding.

McKinley Neuser, 21, had just arrived at her job as a waitress at The Contented Sole in Bristol on Monday, July 30, when she realized that her purse, with about $600 in cash, had disappeared from the basket of her electric scooter.

A motorboat operated by a Massachusetts man struck and killed a 32-year-old Lincolnville woman who was swimming in Damariscotta Lake around 8:45 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2.

Dyer Long Pond property owners expressed concern about the pond’s water level and what they say is the failure of a dam owner to maintain the water level during a hearing at Jefferson Village School on Thursday, July 26.

Contractors started work on the Wiscasset School Department’s long-awaited energy project in late June. The project consists of a series of improvements to save energy at department buildings, including installation of insulation, LED lighting, and new windows.

A LifeFlight helicopter flew a Massachusetts bicyclist to Maine Medical Center in Portland after a collision involving the bicycle and a Subaru on Route 1 in Newcastle the afternoon of Tuesday, July 31.

A cat product doubles as house decor when it comes from Marion and Dana Perkins, of Dresden, who also share a love for the curious animal.

Georgina “Gina” Rayburn, 98, recalled her days as a store owner in pre-statehood Alaska and a dancer touring with her late husband during a brief ceremony recognizing her as Bristol’s oldest resident Friday, July 20.