The Lincoln County News

Lincoln Academy teacher John Jenkins has taken a leave of absence from the school to run for governor in 2018.

The Dresden Planning Board will hold a site walk and public hearing for a smelt camp business near Cork Cove in the Kennebec River.

The RSU 40 Board of Directors will hold a special meeting, to include a dismissal hearing, at the school district’s central office in Union at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 12.

When Savory Maine reopens after winter break in 2018, owner and cook Grace Goldberg will have shifted the entire restaurant from the main floor to the basement level.

After several meetings with the developer and over an hour of discussion at its meeting Monday, Dec. 4, the Damariscotta Planning Board unanimously voted to approve a Portland developer’s project for a development at 435 Main St.

A sport-utility vehicle struck a Main Street building in downtown Wiscasset during the early evening hours of Friday, Dec. 1. The accident sent one person to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and caused visible damage to the building.

An agreement between the Maine Department of Transportation and the town of Wiscasset will delay the demolition of Haggett’s Garage until at least February.

Rob Macks, of Jefferson, uses his artistic background and eye for beauty and detail to build high-end wooden-strip vessels at his Laughing Loon Custom Canoes and Kayaks workshop on Route 126.

A photo of the historic Arch Bridge, which carries Benner Road over the Pemaquid River in Bristol Mills, received twice as many votes as its closest competitor to become the November winner of the #LCNme365 photo contest.

At its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, Nov. 30, the LincolnHealth Board of Trustees adopted a system-wide reorganization that would align all MaineHealth organizations and their boards under a single board of trustees and a unified financial structure. This change in governance has been discussed for the past year as a “unification” of the health-care system’s members.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen will pursue a moratorium on recreational-marijuana businesses rather than an indefinite ban, contrary to the Waldoboro Marijuana Committee’s recommendation.