The marquee at Bob Rogers Canoe Sales on Route 1 in Wiscasset announces the passing of Marine Sergeant Charles Abbott, and he will be missed.

Michelle L. Barto, 35, Augusta, unlawful possession of oxycodone, Oct. 30, 2014; unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, Oct. 30, 2014, both dismissed.

Damariscotta’s Yellowfront Grocery is receiving a bit of sprucing up just in time for the holidays.

With its final say on the 2016 budget, the Lincoln County Budget Advisory Committee sent a unanimous message to commissioners – reduce employees’ medical benefits.

Ellinwood Foundations’ property on Route 1 in Edgecomb may soon be the site of an additional business. Owner Ben Ellinwood attended an Edgecomb Planning Board meeting Thursday, Nov. 5 with architect George Parker to discuss using a portion of the property for a high-end storage facility.

After almost 20 years of working in a variety of offices, Jim Cosgrove is working from home.

Former Wiscasset Selectman Judith Colby will return to the board after winning a three-way race for a vacant seat Tuesday, Nov. 3.

A Wiscasset man was summonsed for driving to endanger following a single-vehicle rollover on Foye Road in Wiscasset the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 29. Caleb P. Libby, 24, of Wiscasset, was issued the summons after voluntarily submitting to an intoxication test at Two Bridges Regional Jail, which came back negative, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said.

An annual tour of Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset for local legislators will have special meaning this year and, for the first time in the history of the tour, the public is invited to attend. Scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, the tour has previously focused on the budget crunch created by the lack of promised state funding for flagship jails, or jails that house out-of-county inmates, through the now-defunct Maine Board of Corrections.

The following property transfers were recorded recently at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset:

Boothbay: Walter H. Konrad to Beth Rushton and Steven Rushton; Peter J. Cormier and Lisa B. Cormier to Jim Robichaud and Sheri Robichaud; Judith M. Paine to Corey Sprague; Margaret Ann Bikales and Eliot Bikales to Peter Klein and Barbara Klein; Elizabeth M. Osborn to James V. Catano and Michelle A. Masse;

Chelsea Jones was a social butterfly who was fun, bubbly, and witty. But her family, including her two young children, were the most important things in her life.

A federal preschool expansion grant awarded to RSU 12 in December 2014 for a five-year period has been eliminated from the preliminary federal budget for fiscal year 2016 to 2017. The grant funds are guaranteed for a second year, RSU 12 Superintendent Howard Tuttle said. After that, the availability of those funds is uncertain.

The Damariscotta-based social-services agency Mobius Inc. celebrated a year of growth during its annual meeting at The 1812 Farm in Bristol Mills Monday, Nov. 9.

A 49-year-old man was medically evacuated from his boat five miles southeast of Boothbay Harbor on Monday after a man on another boat noticed the victim was in medical distress, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.