The Lincoln County News

The Webster Van Winkle building on LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus in Damariscotta is getting a facelift and will soon house the hospital’s wellness and rehabilitation services.

Wiscasset had a very special visitor this past week: World War II U.S. Navy veteran Jack Burkholder.

Facing with the very real possibility of running out of money, a reshuffling of the Morris Farm Trust Board of Trustees and a refinancing of the trust’s debt could herald a new lease on life for the 27-year-old nonprofit.

A Pro Stock driver was LifeFlighted to Maine Medical Center in Portland following a crash at the Wiscasset Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 4, according to a post on the Wiscasset Speedway LLC Facebook page.

The positivity rate of COVID-19 tests at LincolnHealth increased slightly to 13.77%, from 8.72% last week, according to hospital spokesperson John Martins.

Looking to build on a career of providing economic opportunity for her community Senator Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, is seeking a fourth consecutive term in the race for Senate District 24.

Business owner Matthew Brackley, R-West Bath, is looking to address “burdensome regulations” with his bid for Senate District 24.

Ladies in fringed silk dresses and jeweled headbands, gentlemen in bowties, boaters and Gatsby-white all danced and dined on the shores of the Damariscotta River to celebrate a milestone birthday. The Lincoln Home senior living community in Newcastle turned 95 on Saturday, Aug. 20.

A special town meeting vote to set aside $200,000 for a revaluation of properties in Dresden ended in a 28-28 tie, causing the question to fail, on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Lincoln County’s shark summer continued Thursday, Aug. 25 when a fisherman on a charter boat pulled an unusual specimen out of the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset.

The positivity rate of COVID-19 tests at LincolnHealth for the past week is 8.72%, the lowest it has been since the week of June 13-19, according to hospital spokesperson John Martins.