The Lincoln County News

Newcastle voters defeated a proposed amendment to the town’s core zoning code that would have broadened requirements for project review by the planning board at a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 11.

At its meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 6, the Somerville Select Board heard from a resident who said she had been experiencing racially motivated harassment for over a year.

The AOS 93 Board recommended a central office budget of $1,373,602.49, an increase of $279,074.72 or 25.49%, after extensive discussion and a failed vote to remove a new position at its Thursday, Dec. 7 meeting.

The Bristol Consolidated School gymnasium was full of residents on Thursday, Dec. 7, as they packed in to express concerns and support for Bristol’s draft comprehensive plan at the public hearing hosted by the comprehensive plan committee.

The Alna Community Solar Farm, now 15 months past its anticipated finish line, has faced construction delays from a transmission study by Central Maine Power Co. that is expected to last well into next year.

Dresden resident Jerri Whitman has taken on the unique project of creating portraits of Maine women that have served in either the state or federal legislature.

Conversion of a downtown office building into apartments, a new business, and progress on the town’s next comprehensive plan occupied the Damariscotta Planning Board at its Monday, Dec. 4 meeting. Members also approved minor adjustments to a senior housing development site plan by DC Ledgewood to make the project more competitive for state funding.

Two teachers from Wiscasset Elementary School attended a national conference to showcase the school’s Book Buddy program, a partnership with students from the University of Maine at Farmington.

The South Bristol town office is fully staffed for the first time in four years after South Bristol Select Board members voted to appoint two applicants for the remaining open municipal positions at its Thursday, Nov. 30 meeting. Board members also announced the launch of the town’s new website.

School committees across AOS 93 started weighing options to restructure the Central Lincoln County School System last week and closed the door on a regionalizing choice that would have created a six-town middle school and two new prekindergarten programs.