A strong nor’easter that brought blizzard conditions to Lincoln County through most of Tuesday, Jan. 27 left little damage behind, aside from large amounts of drifted snowfall for residents to dig out of.

The Newcastle, Bristol, and Damariscotta Fire Departments received a report of a potential structure fire on Standpipe Road in Damariscotta at approximately 9:11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 24.

A Bremen man was sentenced to five months in jail earlier this month for grabbing a woman’s breast and attempting to grab her buttocks in September 2014.

There is probable cause for the suspension or disbarment of prominent Midcoast lawyer Philip Cohen, a Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar committee has ruled.

Last November, Neil Cavanaugh expanded his longtime business, Island Sign Works, into Wiscasset, where it now shares a location with The Copy Shop at 62 Old Ferry Rd.

Wiscasset Selectman Ben Rines dropped a bombshell during the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, Jan. 6, making a motion to present a warrant article at the annual town meeting in June authorizing the board to begin negotiations to close the Wiscasset Municipal Airport.

Law enforcement was alerted to a possible kidnapping in Wiscasset the evening of Thursday, Jan. 8. It turned out to be a family dispute with the call placed by parents upset that their 16-year-old daughter had left the house with her 18-year-old boyfriend, according to law enforcement.

Updated Jan. 28 at 12:50 p.m.
Fire departments from Whitefield, Alna, Jefferson, Windsor, Somerville, Chelsea, and Pittston responded to the scene of a fully involved structure fire at 452 Mills Rd. in Whitefield Tuesday, Jan. 27.

A Wiscasset man who allegedly led Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline on a high-speed chase Dec. 13, 2014 was arrested again Jan. 20, a week after his release on bail.

The National Weather Service has upgraded a winter storm watch to a winter storm warning in advance of a weather system forecast to bring snowfall to Lincoln County beginning Saturday afternoon and continuing into the night. The “warning” status indicates that a significant winter storm is either expected or occurring.

South Bristol’s renowned jump rope club, the Spindrifters, gave its first performance of 2015 at the Edgecomb Eddy School Thursday, Jan. 15.

An Oxford County man who burglarized Damariscotta’s Coastal Car Wash in February 2014 was sentenced to five years in prison at Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta Tuesday, Jan. 13.

A local woman has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and a year of probation after pleading guilty to 10 charges in connection with a July 15, 2014 hit-and-run in Wiscasset and resisting arrest in Damariscotta later that day.

Ben and Taryn Marcus, owners of Sheepscot General Farm and Store in Whitefield, are among the farmers featured in “Growing Local,” a film about the struggle of Maine’s local food movement to remain viable. The film premiered at the Camden Film Festival in September 2014 and will be screened at locations in Whitefield and Waldoboro in January.