Gina Hamilton joined the Wiscasset Newspaper this week, covering police, the Sheriff’s Office, courts and the jail, county government, Damariscotta and Newcastle government, and marine resources and environmental issues.

Hamilton is a former news reporter, editorial editor, and arts editor at the Times Record in Brunswick. Prior to that, she was the editor of the Coastal Journal in Bath, and has also run the online-only New Maine Times.

She has won several awards from the Maine Press Association for editorials and economic analysis. She has also written textbooks in math and science for the middle grades and high school, and has published three novels. One of these, “The Day of the Wave,” a novel for children, was set in post-tsunami Indonesia, and received critical acclaim.

She lives in Bath with her husband, adult son, foster son, two Springer spaniels, and other animals on a small urban organic farm. The family raises laying chickens and ducks, tomatoes, peppers, berries, and cucumbers, and has a small apple orchard.