The Lincoln County News

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.

The Whitefield Board of Selectmen, fire chief, road commissioners, roads committee members, and school officials gathered with residents on a narrow section of Hollywood Boulevard on Monday, Aug. 21. The gathering was a first step toward a solution to a problem that has pitted residents of the gravel road against each other.

A year after a representative from the Maine Department of Transportation visited Newcastle and Nobleboro to discuss the installation of seasonal speed bumps in Damariscotta Mills, the selectmen of both towns decided to move forward with a traffic-calming measure of their own.