The Lincoln County News

No injuries were reported after an airplane crashed into a swamp near Woodchuck Way in Jefferson the evening of Saturday, June 23.

The heat was on in more ways than one in Damariscotta on Saturday, June 16, during the first annual Can-Am Shuck Star Competition and Oyster Party. The event was one of several over the course of the three-day Damariscotta Oyster Celebration, from June 14-16.

Newcastle voters approved a $1 million line of credit for roadwork, as well as the municipal budget, during annual town meeting Monday, June 18.

Damariscotta residents approved a land transfer for a fire training facility and rejected an attempt to restrict the use of electronic signs in the C2 district during the annual town meeting Wednesday, June 13.

Dresden voters amended seven articles during annual town meeting Saturday, June 16, including an amendment to ensure the selectmen consult the fire department before they appoint its officers.

Hundreds of people celebrated the life of Isabelle Manahan at the Damariscotta River Association’s Great Salt Bay Farm in Damariscotta on a sunny Thursday morning, June 14.

“It’s not every day a church celebrates its 200th anniversary,” said one fifth-generation parishioner present for the anniversary Mass at St. Denis Church in Whitefield on Sunday, June 10.

Home is 100 square feet made of wood and metal, with three windows facing each other. At least for 16-year-old John Rankin it is.

The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum will host the first-ever Alna Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 16.

A father and son from Massachusetts sustained severe burns when a propane leak caused an explosion and fire at their friend’s summer home on Dutch Neck Road in Waldoboro the evening of Thursday, June 14.

Wiscasset Police Chief Jeffrey Lange will resign his post in July, Town Manager Marian Anderson announced in an email the afternoon of Wednesday, June 13.