The Lincoln County News

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen canceled a special meeting called for Wednesday, Jan. 18 to sign a warrant for a special town meeting by referendum on the Wiscasset School Department’s proposed $1.75 million energy conservation performance contract.

Two petitions are currently in circulation in Wiscasset. If successful, voters will decide whether to form an education committee to explore alternatives for educating Wiscasset’s high school students. Voters will also revisit the Maine Department of Transportation’s downtown traffic project and decide, in a binding referendum vote, whether to accept or reject it based on changes to the project since a previous vote.

The Lincoln Academy Business Club hopes to bring members of the community to its first business talk, an event where speakers with entrepreneurial backgrounds will share their experiences and offer advice to those in attendance.

As the annual town meeting in March draws closer, the Bristol Board of Selectmen continued its discussion regarding the Bristol Parks and Recreation Commission’s proposal of a $1 increase to the entrance fee at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park and the commission’s intent to hire a parks and recreation director.

A 62-year-old West Gardiner man died when his dump truck went off Doyle Road in Whitefield and rolled onto its side the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 20.

A former Damariscotta resident and 2013 graduate of Lincoln Academy is helping millennials hone their “adulting” skills through her work at a Massachusetts business that teaches financial literacy to ages 20-40.

A Bristol woman recently purchased a business that rents bounce houses, dunk tanks, carnival games, and inflatable boxing and jousting sets for parties and other functions.

Leaders of several religious faiths gathered at The Second Congregational Church in Newcastle on Monday, Jan. 16 for a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The interfaith event was dedicated to building the “beloved community” King often referred to as the end goal of the non-violent actions he led during the civil rights movement.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen voted to appoint an interim town manager during the board’s meeting the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 17.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted 3-1 in opposition to a warrant for a special town meeting that would have brought the Wiscasset School Department’s proposed $1.75 million energy conservation performance contract to a vote in open session.

The data collection system Maine uses to track overdoses is “counting bodies after the fact,” said Tim Cheney, Walpole resident and founder of the addiction resource center Chooper’s Guide and its nonprofit advocacy arm Chooper’s Foundation.