Three candidates are looking to fill a seat on the Jefferson School Committee left vacant when Shawn St. Cyr resigned earlier this year.

Whitefield residents will gather Saturday, March 21 to elect municipal officials and decide how much in taxpayer funds will be appropriated for municipal activities.

It takes many businesses, small and large, to support what is far and away the state’s most valuable fishery, including one Lincoln County company that is steadfast when it comes to the notion of staying local.

Eric Dedoes, president of Plante Buoy Sticks in Somerville, said the company has been manufacturing plastic gear for lobster and crab traps for more than 30 years.

Fire destroyed a double-wide mobile home in Boothbay the evening of Saturday, March 7. The occupants and their pets escaped.

Lincoln Academy students have moved into a new dormitory on campus and the first classes inside the school’s state-of-the-art technology center will start this month.

Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 has released its preliminary budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year and representatives have begun to attend the district’s selectmen meetings to hear concerns and build support in anticipation of the regional budget meeting scheduled for May.

A Wiscasset High School student faces a felony drug trafficking charge for allegedly attempting to sell an assortment of prescription drugs at school Friday, March 27.

A Wiscasset man was arrested Thursday, March 19 and charged with barging into a Woolwich home on St. Patrick’s Day and threatening the resident with a handgun.

The Wiscasset Police Department reports the following activity for the week ending March 9:

SummonsScott R. Colby, 44, Wiscasset, criminal mischief, March 3.

Seventy voters gathered at the Alna Fire Station Saturday, March 21 to form a single legislative body and determine the amount of funds to appropriate for municipal activities.

Nobleboro voters will have their say on an $828,084 municipal budget and a $3,024,738 education budget at the annual open town meeting Saturday, March 21.

A local man will avoid jail and repay only $5,000 despite his guilty plea to the theft of more than $10,000 from a Jefferson home.

Edgecomb firefighters responded to a report of smoke filling a hallway at Edgecomb Green, an assisted-living home at 31 Cross Point Rd., shortly after 4 p.m., Saturday, March 7.

Money was allegedly stolen from the Medomak Valley boys basketball team in Portland Thursday afternoon while the team was preparing for their state championship game Friday night against Cape Elizabeth.