The Lincoln County News

There was no equipment or retail market to support Maine’s oyster aquaculture when Barb Scully, of Edgecomb, entered the industry 31 years ago. Maine oysters are now distributed across the country, with widespread recognition of the Damariscotta River as producing some of the finest-quality oysters on the market.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and a 13-year-old Newcastle resident halfway through treatment for a brain tumor hopes to raise awareness in the community.

Efforts of Wiscasset’s downtown business owners to privately contract traffic guards to help alleviate traffic congestion over Labor Day weekend were unsuccessful.

Former Lincoln County Republican Committee Chair Gordon Colby, of Waldoboro, has registered as a candidate to challenge Sen. Dana Dow, R-Waldoboro, in the Maine Senate District 13 primary.

Wizards and witches of all ages flocked to Skidompha Public Library on Thursday, Aug. 24 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” with wand-making, a costume contest, and a scavenger hunt through downtown Damariscotta.

Damariscotta Selectman George Parker will resign from the board because he and his wife, Carolyn Parker, plan to move to Newcastle. 

Wiscasset will soon advertise an open position for a town planner, following the results of a special town meeting on Thursday, Aug. 24. While several residents, including some members of the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen, objected to the open town meeting to reconsider the June vote, the warrant article passed 56-29.

While Shannon Parker can trace her family’s roots in Maine as far back as the early 1800s, she chose to live in the state after visiting 37 countries and five continents. Now, with her second novel, “The Rattled Bones,” the Damariscotta author features the culture and history of her adopted home.

The Damariscotta Police Department welcomed a new reserve officer to its ranks earlier this month.

Ridge Barnes, a top scholar of the Wiscasset High School Class of 2015, now a junior at the University of Maine at Orono, has decided to become the fifth generation of Barnes men to farm the land his great-great-grandfather, Charles Israel Barnes, purchased during the Great Depression.

State Rep. Abden Simmons, R-Waldoboro, pulled a request for a variance to enable the construction of a commercial building on his Elm Street property after a public hearing before the Waldoboro Board of Appeals on Thursday, Aug. 17.