A group of Midcoast women in their 60s, 70s and 80s from the group Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR) met Feb. 23 with some 30 student members of the Bowdoin College NARAL…

Teens To Trails and Chewonki are pleased to announce that…

Wiscasset is asking $1,000 less than Central Lincoln County (CLC) Ambulance to respond to Alna’s calls, but the decision may not come down to money, Alna First Selectman David Abbott said.

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Newcastle Selectmen met to decide on road and maintenance projects for the next five years, but some citizens arrived believing that the selectmen were planning to establish a Department of Public…

Wiscasset selectmen revisited the issue of non-residents serving on town committees, specifically the airport committee when they met Tuesday night. Selectman Judy Flanagan asked to have the issue…

Monday, February 22

Officer Benjamin Kolko issue a warning for speed, and a citation for speed on Bath Road, a warning for speed on Gardiner Road…

Will Gates had everything. He was a full scholarship student in microbiology at University of Vermont, he was a championship speed skier. He had a close family and many friends.

And he died…

Damariscotta’s Planning Board met Feb. 29 with Town Manager Matt Lutkus to discuss his recent markups to the board’s eleventh draft of its proposed sign ordinance.

He first apologized to the…

Wiscasset will soon have a new ambulance director.Town Manager Marian Anderson announced Tuesday Toby Martin will become the town’s new EMS director. Martin will begin his duties on April 4.

In the last presentation of the current winter lecture series sponsored by Lincoln County Historical Association, place based historian Jay Robbins of Richmond will…

The Boothbay Sea and Science Center (BSSC) is pleased to announce that online registration is now available for 2016 Sea and Science summer programs at www.boothbayseaandsciencecenter.org. Space…

Brant Perkins of Boothbay Harbor, who was convicted last July of the sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of tampering with a witness, has accepted an Alford plea to the last charge in the list…

Judith Casella of Edgecomb claims in court documents that she was left holding the bag on a Brunswick couple’s lease and bills for a Wiscasset restaurant.

Lincoln County Superior Court…

I.J. Pinkham, Boothbay Region High School boys varsity basketball coach since 1977 and has won more games than any other Maine high school boys…

Guy “Jared” Peaslee, 32, of Boothbay, died unexpectedly February 25, 2016. 

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Edith F. Chaney, 92, of Shore Road, Edgecomb died February 25, 2016 at her residence.

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Lincoln County’s sheriff and a deputy are asking a judge to throw out a Newcastle man’s civil filing because, they claim, he didn’t go about it the right way.

The motion to dismiss Raoul…

Wiscasset Middle High School senior and student council president Daren Wood found out that organizing a big event like the school’s nearly two-month participation in WGME’s Spirit Challenge can…

Can you name the woman smiling in this photo from our archives? Email guesses to news@wiscassetnewspaper.com. And look for the answer in this week’s print edition of the Wiscasset Newspaper.

Maine Department of Transportation officials will share a number of different proposals under consideration for improving traffic flow through downtown Wiscasset.

The informational meeting…

Wiscasset school administrators want to make two half-time jobs both full-time and buy some technology next school year, when staff costs are projected to hike. The School Committee got its first…

Stan Lane went to Ames True Value in Wiscasset to pick up some things after he and wife Norma Dreyfus lost their Westport Island home in a massive fire last week.

He said someone asked him…

Officials from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the Maine Maple Producers Association report that maple tapping is underway throughout the state, with southern…

Robert "Bob" Dey, resident of the Boothbay region since 1992, died February 21, 2016 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Augusta, Maine. Bob had the comfort and love of…

It took less than five minutes to approve two articles authorizing Wiscasset selectmen to spend $71,531 from the undesignated fund balance at a special town meeting held Feb. 25 in the hearing…

A Westport Island couple spent Thursday night at a Bath hotel after fire destroyed their home on North End Road, Westport Fire Chief Bob Mooney said at the scene Friday morning.

No one was…

The Maine Fishermen’s Forum will be hosting a fishermen led event focused on fostering a salty discussion around climate change in fisheries. Headlined…

Alna voters next month will consider hiring Central Lincoln County (CLC) Ambulance Service, but selectmen so far had no offer to pass along from the town’s longtime provider, Wiscasset Ambulance…

Any time Maine Aeronautics Association does a fly-in and open house at Wiscasset Municipal Airport, it’s a chance for airport visitors to learn. But the one the nonprofit is planning this August…

On the morning of Feb. 20, 2016, Ernst August Benzien, loving husband, father, and grandfather, died peacefully in his home in Fairfield,…

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen held a joint meeting with the Finance Committee on Monday, Feb. 22 to hear from certain committees in town in advance of the town meeting. Among the committees…

Claire Noyes Field died peacefully at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Maryland on Jan. 27, 2016, following a serious illness.

Changes to an abutment might get 50 percent more fish past Alna’s Head Tide Dam, an Atlantic Salmon Federation official told selectmen Feb. 24. The prospect encouraged board members, who then…

Chewonki is thrilled to announce a special addition to its wilderness trips this summer. The Katahdin Woods and Waters Expedition for Maine teens is a unique two…

Wiscasset’s first community solar farm is nearing completion and if all goes according to schedule it will be online sometime next month. The solar array is located on the Morris Farm property on…

Ken Mason, chief deputy for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position of Sheriff of Kennebec County. He had been appointed to that role by Gov…

In the 30 years Mark Fourre, MD, has been an emergency physician, patients have gotten sicker, diagnoses more complex and medication lists longer.

When a…

The next Livestrong session, a free 12-week cancer survivor program at the Boothbay Region YMCA, will begin March 1.

The program will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m.

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Back by popular demand, Midcoast Conservancy will offer an introductory Chainsaw Safety class April 23 and 24 at Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson. This class is part of HVNC’s…

Lincoln County

You must be present at the caucus location in order to vote.

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Lincoln County Democrats…

Kerem Durdag wants to accomplish two things at the Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner in Edgecomb March 3. The chief executive officer at Biovation in Boothbay wants attendees to…

Today, Wednesday, Feb. 24

Boothbay…

Wiscasset School Department has no school on Wednesday, Feb. 24, Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot announced. An email notification states the closure is due to “the variable and inclement…

Jane Susan Willett of Camden died in Brunswick on Feb. 20, 2016 with her daughter by her side.

She was born February…

“It’s just no fun anymore,” Mark Westrum, administrator of the Two Bridges Regional Jail, said last week.

He was returning after being ill for some days, and found himself overwhelmed. No…

It's time to prepare for the 14th Annual Festival of Art for Senior College at Belfast. All Maine artists, aged 50 and over, amateur or professional, can submit artwork for the show running June 9…

Capt. Keith Colburn of TV’s “Deadliest Catch” will be in attendance at this year’s Maine Fishermen’s Forum, being held at the Samoset Resort in Rockland March 3-5. He is participating in the…

I love food. I have an obsession with food and anything food-related.

From the time I wake up and start thinking about what I’ll have for breakfast to the time I…

Join Andrew Fenniman at The Lincoln Home for a presentation Monday, Feb. 29, from 3 to 4 p.m., to learn more about the Lincoln Theatre's past and present.…