Richard F. McLellan, 85, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 4, 2020 with his loving family by his side.
He is survived by two daughters, Richelle and Melanie; granddaughter, Katie;…
News
The 2020 Edgecomb town meeting will be like no other in the town’s history. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Edgecomb’s annual May town meeting being first postponed, and later changed to a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 17, 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…
Every race Danny Evarts wanted to enter this year was canceled due to the pandemic, until Sunday, when the Woolwich firefighter got to bike seven miles from Wiscasset’s fire station to Woolwich’s…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 16, 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…
On Friday, Aug. 14 at 10:25 p.m., Lincoln County Communications Center received a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 15, 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, Aug. 15, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 127.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
First National Bank is proud to announce the winners of its thirteenth annual Customer Photo Calendar Contest. Fifteen color photographs have been chosen from over 150 entries, and each winning…
The coronavirus has created a perfect storm for scammers. One unique scam to arise this summer is scammers posing as contact tracers working for state health departments.
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“This is so cool,” Wiscasset Elementary School’s new assistant principal Laura Mewa said. All around her in the cafeteria Friday, Wiscasset Feed Our Scholars’ Set for Success volunteers in face…
MIDCOAST — Teachers in the Midcoast counties of Knox, Waldo and Lincoln are likely to return to campus this fall, if their school district allows for in-person learning, despite area teachers…
In Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12, green means go. A reopening plan the board passed Aug. 13, in person and on Youtube, has students in school five days a week or, if the state raises…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 14, 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 Boothbay Charities Classic, a fundraising event for Special Olympics Maine for the past 29 years, will not be held this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, in a letter being…
four experts weigh in on the metrics that paint the clearest picture of the pandemic
During the past five months of the coronavirus pandemic, Mainers and other Americans have been inundated with numbers. Confirmed COVID-19 cases per capita. Death rates. Test positivity rates.…
Obituary
Alexander Boulette Taylor, 19, of Wiscasset died Aug. 11, 2020 at his residence.
He was born in Damariscotta on Sept. 19, 2000, a son of David A. and Deborah M. (Boulette) Taylor.
…
Obituary
Heidi Lynne Dodge Safford Marcotte passed away peacefully at her mother's home on Aug. 12, 2020 after a brave 20-year struggle with scleroderma.
She was born in Augusta on Nov. 30, 1968…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 13, 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…
Alna selectmen have two questions for planning board members: Do they want selectmen to consider keeping them on the board and, if so, for how long. The poll is part of selectmen’s plans to…
Parents feel students did not make academic progress during remote instruction
MIDCOAST — Families of students attending schools in Knox, Waldo and Lincoln counties are likely to send their students back to campus this fall if their child’s school district allows for in-…
The town budget vote is taking place on Saturday, Aug. 29. Voters can go to the town office 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to vote by secret ballot regarding the school budget along with all Edgecomb…
The U.S. Census Bureau is following up in person with households in Maine that have not yet responded to the 2020 Census.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 12, 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…
In a plan Wiscasset’s school committee passed 4-1 Tuesday night, students would be at school two days a week starting Sept. 8, Mondays and Tuesdays or in another group Thursdays and Fridays,…
In recent years’ annual town meeetings, Edgecomb selectmen have recognized residents who epitomized community service. But the May 2020 annual meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Newcastle, ME: Sunday, Aug. 16, 5 to 6 p.m., on YouTube at bit.ly/393QLYU: Inspired by Frances Perkins’ legacy, the Frances Perkins Center is rising to the challenges of our time. Each time she…
Midcoast Conservancy is delighted to welcome Lissa Widoff as its interim executive director following the retirement of founding Executive Director Jody Jones. Widoff will oversee the day-to-day…
The Mills Administration announced today that it has approved an additional $4 million in awards to more than 80 municipalities and Tribal governments across the state under a second round of Keep…
The Edgecomb School Committee unanimously accepted the advisory committee's reopening plan and the revised school year calendar Aug. 10. The plan works off the state's recommendation for all…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 11, 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, Aug. 11, an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 126.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in…
Westport Island is looking to boost the town office’s internet service and get internet for Wright Landing House. Selectmen heard Monday night via UberConference, town office staff have been…
Obituary
Robert T. “Jake” Jacobson of Foxboro, Massachusetts died suddenly on Aug. 9, 2020.
He was the beloved husband of Joanne Malinn Jacobson and adored father of their daughter, Annabel, and…
The 63rd annual Rotary Club Auction may be cancelled this year, but the very popular Rotary Boutique is now back in operation. Now set up in the comfort of the Rotary Club Barn.
The…
July 15 began as a difficult day for Andrew Hawke, a 23-year-old Boothbay Harbor lobsterman. He woke up around 6:30 a.m. and complained about being “extremely tired.” He sat beside his bed and…
Obituary
David A. Dudley, 73, of Ocean Point, Boothbay passed away on July 30, 2020.
He was born April 7, 1947 to Stephen E. Dudley and Doris (Walden) Dudley of Leicester, Massachusetts.
He…
Engages engaged Rep. Genevieve McDonald as fisheries liaison
Private companies are working with the University of Maine to engineer and erect a demonstration offshore wind power platform two miles south of Monhegan Island in the Gulf of Maine. Proponents of…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 10, 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…
One of the hardest things to understand about scams can be how victims become victims. When you hear about a scam secondhand, the red flags can seem obvious. What isn’t obvious in the retelling of…
Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) entered its fortieth year on the heels of a successful capital campaign that secured Oak Point Farm as a public headquarters, visitor center, and nature preserve…
New research has revealed a surprise twist in the symbiotic relationship between a type of salamander and the alga that lives inside its eggs. A…
Just as many stores, restaurants, and other businesses have fallen victim to the dictates of the coronavirus, museums and historic sites including three that are maintained by Lincoln County…
“This is the part where the train said, ‘I thought I could, I thought I could,” Maynard, Massachusetts’ John McNamara said in a narrow gauge train in Alna Friday night after it took public riders…
Lincoln County Republican Committee
On Saturday, Aug. 22, the Lincoln County Republican Committee will be holding a celebration of the American Bicentennial at its headquarters located at 241 Route 1, Damariscotta from 11 a.m. to 3…
2020 elections
U.S. Senate Democratic candidate and Maine State House Speaker Sara Gideon toured Bigelow Laboratory facilities Aug. 7 after announcing an eight-part climate plan earlier in the day. Gideon said…
A 7 a.m. start Sunday helped firefighters from Woolwich and other towns train mostly before the heat of the day, as they burned a house and storage building at 18 Phipps Point Road.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, Aug. 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…
Negotiating committees for General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge S6 (LS6) reached tentative agreement (TA) for a…
Griffin Sherry, one of the founding members of the Maine-based, nationally-known, ‘roots holler’ group The Ghost of Paul Revere, will perform…
