At approximately 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, the voting stopped for a minute at the Damariscotta town hall. The line, which stretched around the corner and out the door,…

Marge Pooler had two things to do at the Wiscasset Community Center on Tuesday: Play cribbage with fellow senior citizens and turn in her absentee ballot at the polls.

Voting was taking up…

Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 4. This newspaper has, over the past three months, conducted interviews and resources for its readers.

Visit the Election Center 2014 for interviews with…

Wiscasset selectmen will consider a date of Nov. 20 for a public hearing on the upcoming town vote on whether or not to close Wiscasset Primary School. Setting the hearing date is on the board’s…

Mick Devin said his first term in the Maine House of Representatives was successful enough to warrant another go-round.

Devin, D-…

With four days left in the race for the Blaine House, Democratic gubernatorial nominee and U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud stopped at several Wiscasset businesses on Friday.

In this video from…

Anna Morkeski has seen the drawbacks of collusion between the public and private sectors.

Morkeski, 27, R-Damariscotta, said her hope…

Editor’s note: During the summer, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper collectively sought interviews with the three candidates for governor. Eliot Cutler and…

Since this year’s Great State Debate was cancelled, Boothbay Region Community Television is offering its own…

If Jeffery Hanley of Pittston wins the Maine House of Representatives’ District 87 seat, the first thing he will do is nothing.

Anything else would be rash, the Gardiner-raised Republican…

State Rep. Tim Marks, D-Pittston, said he learned a lot in his first term in the Maine House of Representatives.

The retired Maine state police trooper enjoyed the work, including his…

Wiscasset voters on Dec. 9 will give the school committee a green or red light on closing Wiscasset Primary School next year. Selectmen set the referendum date at their Oct. 21 meeting.

“I’m…

Sen. Chris Johnson said his reelection is about the people who put him in the Maine state senate to begin with. The Democrat state senator from Somerville is seeking…

Les Fossel is a busy man.

The Republican state senator candidate from Alna serves on eight boards serving Lincoln County and the…

Regardless of whether or not voters hand Republicans control of the U.S. Senate in November, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she will keep working across the aisle to form bipartisan coalitions…

Bill Coombs, Independent candidate for House District 89, is a man of many talents.

Coombs lives…

Stephanie Hawke is well-known in the Boothbay region as a hard working, honest and personable member of the business community.

She lives in Boothbay Harbor, with her husband Andrew and her…

The Boothbay peninsula’s next representative to the Maine House of Representatives will be substantially younger than his/her predecessor, will have been born in Connecticut, but lived mostly in…

Andrea Main’s petition for a school closure vote has the signatures needed to send it on to Wiscasset selectmen to set a date, Wiscasset Town Clerk Christine Wolfe said Oct. 15.

Main turned…

At least one Susan Collins, U.S. Senate campaign sign was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, probably overnight Sunday into Monday, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said Oct. 14.

A…

Republican volunteer Rowena Flynn, left, of Wiscasset meets with U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine on Main Street in Wiscasset, during one of the incumbent senator’s campaign stops in Lincoln…

When independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler came by Knox Mill in Camden recently …

Remarks by Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on increasing voter registration, especially among young voters, will be the highlight of an early evening event that also features a volunteer-…

OWLS HEAD — In political contests, multi-term incumbents are often derided as “career politicians,” but U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud doesn’t shy away from his long tenure in government. If anything, he’…

Les Fossel, who is a candidate for Maine Senate District 13, has received the highest possible rating of A+ from the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.

The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM) is…

Ginette Rivard, President of Maine State Employees Association, Local 1989 of the Service Employees International Union (MSEA-SEIU) announced recently that the organization supports Sen. Chris…

Sept. 2 was a hot night for Democrats.

Approximately 1,600 Mike Michaud supporters filled the steamy Portland Exposition Center to hear their candidate for governor — and his special guest…

Maine not only has the longest bear hunting season at 66 days; it also has the largest bear population in the contiguous United States. The Department of Inland, Fisheries and Wildlife estimates…

When Shenna Bellows was in fifth grade, she took up the trombone because the man who brought the instruments to the classroom said girls don’t play trombone.

It…

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network will hold and broadcast four key political debates in October. The First …

Alna could lose two of its three selectmen over a decision voters made at a special town meeting Aug. 25, eschewing the board’s decision to go with the lone bidder on the next snow plowing…

Sierra Club Maine recently informed State Sen. Chris Johnson that it has endorsed his candidacy in Senate District 13. This endorsement was made in appreciation of…

The Lincoln County Republican Committee will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at its headquarters in the Freedom '14 Center, 529 Main St. in Damariscotta.

The center is at…

In his second bid for the Blaine House, Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler appears more daunted by the spoiler perception than anything else. Although Cutler garnered 36 percent of…

On Wednesday, July 30, Lincoln County Democrats (LCDC) officially opened their 2014 campaign office on Main Street in Damariscotta. The office is located at the Hilltop Center in the former…

Wiscasset’s Thursday, July 31 Art Walk had a new twist: Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler and some of his campaign entourage were in town to meet with voters and drum up support.…

The Collins for Senator campaign has announced it has named chairmen for Lincoln County, as well as chairmen for every town in the county.

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Congressman Mike Michaud (ME-2), Democratic candidate for Maine governor, will meet with veterans and other interested citizens on Monday, July 7 to discuss…

Across the nation and here in Maine, there is a broad sense that American political life and governance have been compromised by partisan politics and the influence of big money.

Tom Myette…

The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) announced that the rally and meeting with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud, originally…

After more than 17 revisions, four workshops and a cold winter night spent surveying the light-up signs around the Twin Villages, the Newcastle sign ordinance was…

Some 42 Dresden residents gathered at Pownalborough Hall on Saturday morning, June 14, to vote on $630,353 in appropriations with Jay Adams moderating the annual town meeting.

The Damariscotta town meeting was Wednesday, June 11. Almost 60 voters were on hand at the Lincoln Theater to discuss and pass the 45 articles.

Dresden voters will decide whether to accept a total $704,725 in proposed appropriations for its 2014-2015 budget at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 14 at Pownalborough Hall.

Regional School Unit 12 voters on June 10 passed the district’s next budget. It received 65 percent approval, according to Superintendent Howie Tuttle’s June 11 email of unofficial results from…

 In a 72-59 vote at the polls on June 10, Westport Island residents decided to stop pursuing a possible withdrawal from Regional School Unit 12.

Town Clerk Gaye Wagner provided the results…

The Wiscasset school budget passed 300-287, an election official said at the Wiscasset Community Center on June 10.

“Thirteen is a lucky number,” School Committee Chairman Glen Craig said. “…

One could sense the 2014 election was heating up by the atmosphere at the Lincoln County Republican Committee (LCRC) meeting held June 3 in Edgecomb. At the state level,…