The forensic audit of Whitefield’s municipal accounts, called for after the former tax collector misappropriated town funds, is complete.

A 25-year-old Edgecomb woman was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison March 4 after pleading guilty to felony charges of trafficking and importing heroin.

Shane A. Edgecomb, 41, Whitefield, operating under the influence Jan. 24 in Augusta; 96-hour jail sentence to be served in the alternative sentencing program, $600 fine, 150-day license suspension.

District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau and Assistant District Attorney Andrew Wright attended the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, March 3 to discuss the disproportionate amount of prisoners incarcerated before trial.

A local martial arts instructor awaiting trial on four felony charges, including a sexual abuse charge involving a former student, now faces a new charge of tampering with a witness.

A lieutenant with the Cumberland County Jail was indicted March 10 on five class B felony theft charges in what police are calling a case of elder abuse against his own father.

The recent donation of 28 acres of woodland and a 1.9-acre island means the public will have its first access in Bremen to Pemaquid Pond, according to Steve Laurich, chair of the Pemaquid Watershed Association’s Lands Stewardship Committee.

South Bristol’s town meeting warrant had 42 articles, but voters only needed an hour and a half to make decisions for the town’s 2015 year.

Snow has taken another building, as a barn on Cowshit Corner in North Newcastle has partially collapsed.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch in advance of several weather systems forecast to affect Lincoln County through the weekend. Precipitation is forecast to begin early Saturday morning as rain or sleet and then develops into snowfall later in the day, continuing through Sunday as snowfall, according to the NWS.

A Lincoln County grand jury indicted a Waldoboro man on a number of charges March after, according to police, he allegedly grabbed a baseball bat and threatened to smash a woman’s face before smashing a number of items in a Back Cove Road home.

Police are looking for two New York men in connection with an investigation into the reported kidnapping of a Waldoboro woman and her son from their home the night of Feb. 25.

Bremen’s annual town meeting is coming up on Saturday, March 28, and voters will decide on proposals for a reduced municipal budget of $814,088 and a slightly increased secondary education budget of $477,082.

A 32-year-old Bristol woman pleaded guilty to felony theft charges Feb. 26 in connection with her theft and resale of two firearms in spring 2014.