St. Philip's Choir and Bell Choir are presenting a Lessons and Carols service on Sunday, Dec. 29 at 9:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall at 12 Hodge St. 

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 205 calls for service for the period of Dec. 17 to Dec. 23. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 14,867 calls for service.

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Lincoln County is replacing two aging vehicles in its emergency management agency fleet with a 2019 Mercedes Benz Sprinter. The new vehicle replaces a 2009 Ford F-250 and a GMC 350 truck. County EMA Director Emily Huber told commissioners Dec. 17, the Sprinter is "practically new" with only 6,000 miles.

 On Dec. 21 at 3:44 p.m., Lincoln County Communications Center received a report of a head-on motor vehicle collision on Bristol Road in Bristol at the intersection with Walpole Meeting House Road. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Bristol Fire Department, and CLC Ambulance were dispatched to the crash.  

Alna Fire Chief Mike Trask said Dec. 19, the department will seek the next truck at town meeting next March. "You guys need to look into financing for a loan," he told selectmen. 

Wiscasset music and art students had a very busy December! The month began with the music department providing music for the annual Wiscasset town Christmas tree lighting on Dec. 7. Chorus students from Wiscasset Elementary and Wiscasset Middle High School along with members of the WMHS band performed to welcome in the se…

Nine decorated wreaths were on view to the public during Wreaths Around the Holidays 2024, an inspiring event that happens each year during Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest in early December. Local businesses are invited to decorate a wreath, which are then put on display in the Holiday Gift Shop in the Nickels-Sortwell b…

Lincoln County Television (LCTV) is your trusted homegrown community television station. As we approach the end of the year, we want to take a moment to reflect on what makes LCTV so special. 

In January, Lincoln County Sheriff's Department will expand its coverage in Boothbay Harbor from 20 hours per week to 40. On Dec. 17, county commissioners voted, 3-0, to extend the sheriff's department coverage beginning Jan. 23 until May 23 to coincide with two Boothbay Harbor police officers' attendance at Maine Criminal Justice Academy. 

If Wiscasset tuitioned out its high schoolers, their and younger students' bussing would have "a lot of moving parts" to figure in, Transportation and Maintenance Director John Merry said Dec. 16. Merry, longtime holder of the job, was fielding questions from Wiscasset's future of the schools committee.

As part of International Education Week (IEW), Yashaswini Dikonda instructed American history class on the unique historic, cultural and linguistic character of India. Dikonda is an exchange student, spending a year with Wiscasset Middle High School. Di kinda lives in Annaram Shareef, state of Telangaha, India. 

It was a day of goodbyes at the Dec. 17 Lincoln County Commissioners meeting. It was the final meeting for two long-serving commissioners, Hamilton Meserve of Southport and Mary Trescot of Newcastle, who finish their third four-year terms this month. Both decided against seeking fourth terms.

Interested in advocating for the best interests of a child? The Maine Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program is holding its next training for volunteer advocates from March 10 through March 14, 2025. 

The deadline for advertisements, classifieds, press releases, letters, columns and community news, for the Thursday, Dec. 26 edition will be at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 20.

Eight years ago, Edgecomb selectmen started a new Christmas tradition with the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Decorating Contest. The event started as a competition between school and civic organizations, citizens and businesses. In recent years, the contest was between Edgecomb Eddy School students, but that changed this y…

Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons told selectmen Dec. 17, he expects to get them a draft 2025-26 budget by Thursday, Feb. 6. The board set budget talks for Tuesday, Feb. 11, Tuesday, Feb. 25 and Wednesday, March 5, all at 6 p.m. at the town office. 

As the story goes, Mary and her new husband Joseph were away from home, looking for a place to sleep on the eve of Christmas before Christmas was even a thing. The only shelter they could find was a barn, so they made do. Imagine them, huddled up there on blankets in the corner, with the smell and the warmth and the sooth…

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 247 calls for service for the period of Dec. 10 to Dec. 17. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 14,662 calls for service.

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J. Edward Knight Insurance, a leading provider of insurance solutions in Maine, is pleased to announce the upcoming merger with Spencer E. Gray, Jr. LLC, a local independent insurance agency, effective Jan. 1, 2025.