The Lincoln County News

Somerville will begin the 2018-2019 school year with its highest student population since the 1980s, according to a selectman.

Municipal recycling centers and transfer stations across Lincoln County are in search of solutions for recycling plastic due to changes both in the international plastics market and at the county recycling plant.

Wiscasset voters will decide whether to continue the town’s lawsuit against the Maine Department of Transportation in a referendum Tuesday, April 17.

Wiscasset School Department Superintendent Dr. Heather Wilmot will resign at the end of the school year after three years as the head of the department.

The early fundraising efforts of the Clary Lake Association have amazed members and encouraged them on to their goal of $80,000 to purchase the dam and restore the lake’s historical water level.

Nobleboro’s newest – and only – centenarian celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and three generations of his family Tuesday, April 3.

An expected cost increase for ambulance service, improvements to the town hall, and raises for town officials are among the budget items Edgecomb voters will consider during the annual town meeting in May.

The Jefferson Market, the grocery store and takeout business in the village that closed abruptly in February, will go to foreclosure auction next month.

The principal of Nobleboro Central School will soon depart to become the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for AOS 93.

While the Edgecomb School Committee has approved a 2018-2019 education budget with a 6.7 percent increase from last year’s budget, taxpayers will feel less than half of the increase due to other revenues coming into the town.

About 100 people attended a public hearing at the Wiscasset Community Center on Tuesday, April 3 regarding Wiscasset’s upcoming referendum vote on whether to continue a lawsuit against the Maine Department of Transportation.

A driver was airlifted to Maine Medical Center in Portland after a car accident near the entrance to LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus on Bristol Road in Damariscotta the afternoon of Tuesday, April 3.