Students at Great Salt Bay Community School will soon have easier access to water throughout the day thanks to the work of fourth-grader Mitchell Straus.

A 22-year-old Edgecomb man pleaded guilty to a felony at the Lincoln County Courthouse Monday, Oct. 5 after breaking a 20-month-old boy’s elbow last December.

A woman drove her vehicle into the entryway of the Bristol town office early Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 6.

The Damariscotta Fire Department took the next step in developing a response protocol in the event of a propane fire during an exercise at Colby & Gale Inc. Sunday, Oct. 25.

In the Lincoln County Budget Advisory Committee’s third meeting Thursday, Oct. 22, a nearly full committee approved the budgets of the sheriff’s office, emergency management agency, communications center, jail transport, and court security. The budgets collectively account for $4,793,177 of the county’s projected $11,087,169 expenditure budget for 2016.

A Wiscasset man waived his right to a grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a class B felony, for strangling his former girlfriend in June.

A medical issue caused a Hampden man to drive his car off the road in Bristol Friday morning, Oct. 23.

After more than five years, Whitefield Elementary School has completed its new playground. Through the hard work of dedicated staff, the final phase of the playground, which was installed incrementally, was completed over the summer, Principal Josh McNaughton said.

A 43-year-old Waldoboro man has been sentenced to four years in prison for sex crimes against a man and a woman in Waldoboro last year.

For the second year in a row, the winner of the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest annual giant pumpkin weigh-off set a new state record.

A new eye doctor has set up shop in Damariscotta.

Just in time for Halloween, Waldoboro resident Greg Latimer published his second book of mysterious stories from the Midcoast region.

Update to Oct. 8 article

A Boothbay woman was charged with a felony for allegedly operating under the influence of drugs, causing a collision with injury that closed Route 1 in Wiscasset for approximately one hour the afternoon of Oct. 8.

A months-long MDEA investigation into heroin trafficking in Lincoln County has resulted in the arrest of a Westport Island couple. Roger Gingrass, 37, and Alicia Hallstrom, 36, both of Westport Island, were arrested Wednesday, Oct. 21, according to a press release from Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.