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.

A local nonprofit is one step closer to developing a community for area seniors.

Waldoboro officers responded to 255 calls for service in this time period. Below are a few of the highlights.

ArrestsWanda Ames, 55, Waldoboro, warrant, Oct. 29.

A Texas man extradited to Lincoln County in July pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual contact, a class B felony, in Lincoln County Superior Court Tuesday, Nov. 23. Stacy Parker, 37, of Little Elm, Texas, was sentenced to three years in prison with all but nine months suspended, plus two years of probation.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

SummonsesOct. 30, Floyd R. Bonyun, 36, of Lewiston, was issued a summons for indecent conduct, on Lisbon Street, Lewiston, by Detective Jared Mitkus.

Although more or less a typical rodent, black squirrels are a source of myth, legend, and local pride among some of the communities they overrun.

A motorcyclist was transported to the hospital with minor injuries after an accident in Newcastle Monday afternoon, Nov. 2.