The Lincoln County News

Jefferson residents will vote on a 1,002.74% increase to fund emergency medical services, a new medical marijuana ordinance, and 30 other warrant articles at its annual town meeting by referendum on Tuesday, March 29.

Alna residents will decide whether to contract with Central Lincoln County Ambulance or Wiscasset Ambulance Service and vote on 47 other articles at the annual town referendum and meeting on March 25 and 26.

Residents overwhelmingly voted to allow the comprehensive plan committee to continue working on shaping the future of Bristol, during the annual town meeting on March 22.

Only three out of approximately 86 Whitefield voters favored spending $20,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds to erect an electronic sign at Whitefield Elementary School during the annual town meeting March 19 in the school gymnasium.

A Waldoboro family lost two pets and most of their belongings in a structure fire at 422 Reef Road the morning of March 23. 

Whether to use a portion of the town’s American Rescue Plan Act funds to install an electronic sign at the town office, a hike in ambulance costs, and the possibility of increasing funding for the town’s fire department were main topics of discussion during Nobleboro’s annual town meeting at the Nobleboro Central School on March 19.

After a slight increase the week prior, COVID-19 case numbers have once again fallen this week, according to an email from LincolnHealth spokesperson John Martins.

To travel from the Dodge Point Preserve on River Road to the Zak Preserve in the middle of McKay Road in Edgecomb by car, it would take approximately eight minutes. On either side of the road, buildings interspersed by forest, roads leading down to oyster farms on the Damariscotta River.

Bristol voters will get to weigh in on the municipal budget and the future of the comprehensive plan committee at the annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 22.