Jilian P. Noriega and Frank M. Noriega, of Bristol, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Cali Kalani Noriega.

The Damariscotta Police Department reports the following activity from Oct. 26 to Nov. 1:

ArrestsStacy Day, Alna, operating under the influence, Oct. 27.

Lawmakers from both parties are calling for closer scrutiny of Maine’s $230 million-a-year state-run lottery, including determining if its advertising targets Maine’s poor, who are the state’s most avid players.

Until approximately two years ago, most of the American Legion Bradford-Sortwell-Wright Post 54 building on Bath Road could not be seen by passersby. It was obscured by shrubs, which were contributing to the building’s rot, Post 54 Cmdr. Bill Cossette said.

Follow the yellow brick road to a delightful “The Wizard of Oz” at Medomak Valley High School this weekend. Turn off the cell phone, get away from the TV, and see a holiday classic done a little differently this year: live on stage.

A pretrial hearing on a motion to suppress will be continued following an afternoon of testimony in an alleged drunken-driving case involving an accident that killed a bicyclist in Waldoboro last November.

Aura Hair Design in Boothbay Harbor welcomed Ashley Frazer to its creative hair team on Oct. 6. Frazer is a 2014 graduate of Empire Beauty in Portland and previously worked at Untangled in Boothbay Harbor.

On Sept. 5, a Damariscotta woman was aboard the first U.S. surface ship to arrive at the North Pole unaccompanied.

The Wiscasset Police Department reports the following activity for the period of Oct. 19 to Nov. 1.

ArrestRen D. Morse, 27, Wiscasset, operating while license suspended or revoked, Oct. 31.

A Damariscotta woman has been sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to mail oxycodone to a man she met on a dating website.

Sylvia Faith Percy was born to Marion Pinkham and Jacob Percy, of Wiscasset, on Oct. 8 at Maine Medical Center. She weighed in at 4 pounds 8 ounces and was 18 inches long.

Seventh-graders at Bristol Consolidated School had a special guest in their social studies class Nov. 4. State Sen. Chris Johnson, D-Somerville, visited the class to talk about the U.S. Constitution and the branches of government for Liberty Day, an event sponsored by the Bristol Area Lions Club.

Bridget Widmaier, formerly of Damariscotta, and her son, Kurt Widmaier both finished the New York City Marathon Nov. 1. This was the second time mother and son had run the marathon together, the first being when Bridget was two months pregnant with Kurt in 1996.

The Whitefield Board of Selectmen will hold an informational meeting for Clary Lake waterfront owners who requested tax abatements due to the lake’s depleted water levels in the previous year. The meeting, to be held Nov. 17, aims to educate landowners about the town’s current valuation of waterfront property, which is already “as low as it gets,” Whitefield Assessors’ Agent Tom Hayes said.