The Alna Board of Selectmen expects to receive a citizen’s petition to modify school choice in response to concerns about growing enrollment and possible fraud.

As of October 31 at 12:55 p.m., the following warming centers are open to the public in Lincoln County, according to The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency. The term “full functional” means water, heat, showers and a cell phone charging center are available at these locations.

Although full restoration may not take place until Saturday for some customers, Central Maine Power has announced that it is “positioned to make major progress on power restoration” the day after an intense wind and rain storm has caused the highest number of outages to the energy grid in CMP’s 118-year history. Of the 26,934 CMP customers in Lincoln County, 21,601 of those households have power outages, according to the 12:52 p.m. report from CMP on Tuesday.

Clearing downed trees and limbs on your own could be highly dangerous due to the possibility that live wires may be tangled within the debris, warns Casey Stevens, Director of the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency. Despite the danger, the LCEMA has been receiving reports that some residents are engaging is this activity instead of waiting for qualified repair crews from Central Maine Power to arrive.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch and a high wind watch in advance of a storm forecast to begin affecting Lincoln County during the overnight hours of Sunday and continuing through Monday.

With wind velocities subsiding and rainfall lightening throughout Wednesday afternoon, crews from Central Maine Power succeeded in restoring power to most affected Lincoln County households, with the remaining eight households all located on the same small road in Jefferson.

A Friendship man sustained non-life-threatening injuries when he fell asleep at the wheel and his car rolled over on Washington Road in Waldoboro the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 21.