The Lincoln County News

As a 17-year-old, Mike Cuthbertson got an after-school job sweeping the floors of William Smith Enterprises, a manufacturing company in Jefferson. He is now owner, with wife Paula, of Specialty Products Co., a precision machine parts company that grew from the garage of his Whitefield home to a manufacturer of products that companies in the aerospace, medical, and industrial fields rely on.

In an effort to expand its ability to provide transitional housing to individuals and families in need, Stepping Stone Housing Inc. recently purchased property on Biscay Road in Damariscotta.

U.S. Cellular has canceled its plans to build a cellphone tower on Townhouse Road, Whitefield Planning Board Chair Jim Torbert said, rendering an appeal of the board’s approval of the project moot.

“An Act to Legalize Marijuana” faces several complications, such as a ballot recount, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, and uncertainty about the regulations the state will adopt to govern the law, First Selectman Dale Hinote said at the Dresden Board of Selectmen’s Monday, Nov. 28 meeting.

Several residents of Jenny Lane attended the Dresden Board of Selectmen’s meeting Monday, Nov. 28 to respond to recent notification that the town would no longer take responsibility for plowing their road.

Newcastle residents will get a look at the first draft of the town’s new comprehensive plan and land use code during a public presentation Tuesday, Dec. 6 in the Lincoln Academy Alumni Dining Commons.

The town of Waldoboro will soon launch a program to provide clothing for community members in need.