Garden Club of Wiscasset member Jan Flowers sat with a stranger’s blanket about her Saturday as she helped man a bake sale at the club’s plant sale. The annual event was fully outdoors this year…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 9, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 plans to keep sending its pre-kindergarten Alna and Westport Island students to Edgecomb Eddy School past the 2023 end date of a pair of 2018 pacts with…

Con artists are trying to take advantage of the millions of Americans who have received their COVID-19 vaccines by sending fake surveys asking about their experience. These emails…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 8, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 8, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 795.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

AUGUSTA — Senator Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, introduced a bill this week to improve Maine’s laws regarding spending by political action committees.

LD 1621, “An Act To Reform Payments to…

In Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s five-year plan, broadband, housing and intergenerational community building were three of the six primary goals. Executive Director Mary Ellen…

With three vacancies, Lincoln County Communications found itself between a rock and hard a place in maintaining a fully staffed work schedule. To alleviate the staff shortage, Teamsters Local 340…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 7, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 7, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 794.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Green…

Terrance John Quinn, 76, passed away May 4, 2021 after a battle with cancer. He was a resident of Merrimack, New Hampshire and Boothbay Harbor, Maine.  

Terry was born…

James and Rebecca (Hary) Gardner are both graduates of Rockland District High School. They first met at a dance at the Community Building. They were married at Owls Head Baptist Church on June…

A memorial service for Mary Lee Brown of Boothbay Harbor, who died Jan. 10, 2020, will be he held Saturday, June 12 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay…

It’s an ongoing struggle for Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett to attract and retain deputies. Brackett explained his hiring dilemma to county commissioners May 3 as one where he has had two to…

Rhoda Ackerson Weyr, a long-time Boothbay resident and community activist, died on Sunday, April 25, 2021 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She was 83 and had developed complications after a fall.…

Davis Island residents were notified last week when a proposed two-tiered Wiscasset Water District rate increase would occur. And on May 3, Superintendent Chris Cossette explained why. Cossette…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 6, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 6, an additional two COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 793.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, in partnership with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Somerset County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD),…

The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) and Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust will be hosting a tour of the recent harvest operation at Dodge Point in Newcastle at noon on Tuesday, May 11.…

Sandra Lee Brown, 75, of Boothbay Harbor passed away at Midcoast Hospital in Brunswick on May 1, 2021.

She was born in Boothbay Harbor to Richard Curtis and Myrtle Reed. She graduated from…

Update: Wiscasset Police Department reports Pekich was found safe on May 6.

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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 5, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 791.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 5, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

The Woolwich Select Board got an earful Monday night from residents of the Old Arrowsic and Woodbridge roads who want to bring an end to outdoor concerts in their neighborhood. Two “Music for…

Selectmen and other residents debated Tuesday night over a proposed plaque honoring a poet-civil rights advocate who died in a 1938 Wiscasset car-train crash. The board voted 3-2 to have resident…

Rochelle Rose Warren, 23, of Amy Circle, Dresden passed away unexpectedly on April 29, 2021.

She was born in Brunswick on Sept. 2, 1997, a daughter of Elmer E and Heidi L (Pottle) Warren.…

Michael Brock Stanton, 75, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on April 23, 2021.

Brock was born in Bath, Maine, the son of Harold Stanton and…

As spring comes to coastal Maine, it brings with it the return of alewives to Nequasset Lake and the start of the annual Nequasset Alewife Count. The first alewives were seen entering Nequasset…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 4, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

A plaque for poet, author, educator and civil rights advocate James Weldon-Johnson in downtown Wiscasset, where a car-train crash killed him in 1938, will acknowledge “the town’s place in his life…

Westport Island town office’s American flag is back flying for the first time in at least five years, Deputy Municipal Agent Gaye Wagner said. In Monday night’s UberConference call selectmen’s…

Is it a scam if someone directs you to pay a debt or other obligation with a gift card? The answer is yes – in 100% of cases. But alarmingly, 1 in 4 people surveyed by AARP got this question wrong…

Once again, contributing photographer Martin Grassie has graced us with photos of one of his favorite places to shoot — Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay — which opened for the season…

On Friday, May 7, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb will be holding its biennial Celebrate CTL Silent Auction. For the first time, the auction will be held virtually. Funds…

In April, 15 people from ten local businesses received training that provided them with tools to help reduce underage drinking and drunk driving. The Responsible Alcohol Seller/Server Training is…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 3, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 790.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 3, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

The town of Edgecomb, “in the southern part of Lincoln County, is situated upon the peninsula formed by the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, having Newcastle on the north and Boothbay upon the…

A woods fire in a rocky, hilly area off Wiscasset’s Birch Point Road Sunday, May 2 spanned about three acres, Alna Volunteer Fire Department reported on its Facebook page.

The department…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 2, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, May 1, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, May 1, an additional five COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 789.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, April 30, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.

Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…

AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, April 30, an additional two COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 784.  

Below is a table of all the COVID-19…

Wiscasset schools’ maintenance and transportation director John Merry told the school committee Tuesday night, April 27, he has spoken with someone about bus service and would be again, then he…

The Dresden Appeals Board on April 29 continued gathering evidence on an appeal of a stop work order issued to gravel pit owner Heather Beasley. The discussion centered on the history of Ballard…

The Maine Arts Commission requests applications to select a new state poet laureate for a five-year term. Maine’s Poet Laureate position is an appointment designed to promote poetry throughout the…