At approximately 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, the voting stopped for a minute at the Damariscotta town hall. The line, which stretched around the corner and out the door,…

The Boothbay Harbor Town Office was a scene of well-organized chaos as hundreds of locals turned out to vote on Nov. 4.

While Town Clerk Michelle Farnham registered new voters, two…

Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 4. This newspaper has, over the past three months, conducted interviews and resources for its readers.

Visit the Election Center 2014 for interviews with…

Mick Devin said his first term in the Maine House of Representatives was successful enough to warrant another go-round.

Devin, D-…

Anna Morkeski has seen the drawbacks of collusion between the public and private sectors.

Morkeski, 27, R-Damariscotta, said her hope…

Editor’s note: During the summer, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper collectively sought interviews with the three candidates for governor. Eliot Cutler and…

Maine Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler made several stops at Midcoast businesses on Saturday, Oct. 25, including one in Boothbay Harbor and one in Boothbay.

Joined and…

Since this year’s Great State Debate was cancelled, Boothbay Region Community Television is offering its own…

If Jeffery Hanley of Pittston wins the Maine House of Representatives’ District 87 seat, the first thing he will do is nothing.

Anything else would be rash, the Gardiner-raised Republican…

State Rep. Tim Marks, D-Pittston, said he learned a lot in his first term in the Maine House of Representatives.

The retired Maine state police trooper enjoyed the work, including his…

Les Fossel is a busy man.

The Republican state senator candidate from Alna serves on eight boards serving Lincoln County and the…

Sen. Chris Johnson said his reelection is about the people who put him in the Maine state senate to begin with. The Democrat state senator from Somerville is seeking…

Regardless of whether or not voters hand Republicans control of the U.S. Senate in November, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she will keep working across the aisle to form bipartisan coalitions…

The Boothbay peninsula’s next representative to the Maine House of Representatives will be substantially younger than his/her predecessor, will have been born in Connecticut, but lived mostly in…

Stephanie Hawke is well-known in the Boothbay region as a hard working, honest and personable member of the business community.

She lives in Boothbay Harbor, with her husband Andrew and her…

Bill Coombs, Independent candidate for House District 89, is a man of many talents.

Coombs lives…

At least one Susan Collins, U.S. Senate campaign sign was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, probably overnight Sunday into Monday, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said Oct. 14.

A…

When independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler came by Knox Mill in Camden recently …

Remarks by Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on increasing voter registration, especially among young voters, will be the highlight of an early evening event that also features a volunteer-…

OWLS HEAD — In political contests, multi-term incumbents are often derided as “career politicians,” but U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud doesn’t shy away from his long tenure in government. If anything, he’…

Les Fossel, who is a candidate for Maine Senate District 13, has received the highest possible rating of A+ from the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.

The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM) is…

Ginette Rivard, President of Maine State Employees Association, Local 1989 of the Service Employees International Union (MSEA-SEIU) announced recently that the organization supports Sen. Chris…

Chester F. Fossett of Boothbay Harbor, who has served as Lincoln County Register of Probate since 1987, announced last week that he is retiring and will not seek the Register of Probate position…

Sept. 2 was a hot night for Democrats.

Approximately 1,600 Mike Michaud supporters filled the steamy Portland Exposition Center to hear their candidate for governor — and his special guest…

Maine not only has the longest bear hunting season at 66 days; it also has the largest bear population in the contiguous United States. The Department of Inland, Fisheries and Wildlife estimates…

When Shenna Bellows was in fifth grade, she took up the trombone because the man who brought the instruments to the classroom said girls don’t play trombone.

It…

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network will hold and broadcast four key political debates in October. The First …

Sierra Club Maine recently informed State Sen. Chris Johnson that it has endorsed his candidacy in Senate District 13. This endorsement was made in appreciation of…

The Lincoln County Republican Committee will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at its headquarters in the Freedom '14 Center, 529 Main St. in Damariscotta.

The center is at…

In his second bid for the Blaine House, Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler appears more daunted by the spoiler perception than anything else. Although Cutler garnered 36 percent of…

On Wednesday, July 30, Lincoln County Democrats (LCDC) officially opened their 2014 campaign office on Main Street in Damariscotta. The office is located at the Hilltop Center in the former…

Wiscasset’s Thursday, July 31 Art Walk had a new twist: Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler and some of his campaign entourage were in town to meet with voters and drum up support.…

The Collins for Senator campaign has announced it has named chairmen for Lincoln County, as well as chairmen for every town in the county.

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Congressman Mike Michaud (ME-2), Democratic candidate for Maine governor, will meet with veterans and other interested citizens on Monday, July 7 to discuss…

Across the nation and here in Maine, there is a broad sense that American political life and governance have been compromised by partisan politics and the influence of big money.

Tom Myette…

The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) announced that the rally and meeting with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud, originally…

After more than 17 revisions, four workshops and a cold winter night spent surveying the light-up signs around the Twin Villages, the Newcastle sign ordinance was…

The Damariscotta town meeting was Wednesday, June 11. Almost 60 voters were on hand at the Lincoln Theater to discuss and pass the 45 articles.

One could sense the 2014 election was heating up by the atmosphere at the Lincoln County Republican Committee (LCRC) meeting held June 3 in Edgecomb. At the state level,…

On June 10 residents of Edgecomb, Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor will be heading to the polls to vote in the primary election.

Residents will be voting to nominate candidates for…

The June 9 meeting and rally in Damariscotta with Democratic candidate for Governor Mike Michaud has been postponed. Lincoln County Democrats announced that…

Although no candidates took out papers to run for selectmen, Damariscotta voters will still have plenty of articles on which to vote during the annual town meeting.…

About one percent of the town’s population, a total of 36 voters, attended the Boothbay Harbor Town Meeting May 3. Deputy Moderator Ervin Snyder presided over the meeting, which was held in the…

Maine Democratic Party priorities in the next two years will be to advance progressive policies in the key areas of healthcare, early childhood…

Tyler Hodgdon is a number cruncher. He likes budgets, and figuring out how our money is best spent in our local school system. For that reason, Hodgdon is running for another term as a trustee of…

Jenn Greenleaf said she is looking to be the next trustee of the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District because she wants to make a difference in local education.

“I like being…

Voting in Boothbay Harbor will be on Friday, May 2, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the Town Office. Town Meeting will be held the next morning at 9 a.m. at the Boothbay Region Elementary School.…

Some folks have just about seen and done everything on this peninsula in the last half century, and Selectman Douglas Burhnam certainly fits that description.

Having served the town of…

Absentee ballots have arrived at the Boothbay Town Office. Anyone wishing to cast an absentee ballot can do so in person at the office, or take a ballot with them or have one mailed to their home…

Democrats moved many important issues forward in the current legislative session. A bill sponsored by Sen. Chris Johnson to expand the use of fresh local foods in…