Local volunteers will perform community service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 19. Anyone interested in assistance should contact Joann Kaplan at 882-6546 or Robert Breckenridge at 563-8624 to arrange further details.

Alyssa Lynn Hyson was born Oct. 22, 2014 at 10:02 p.m. at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta. She weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and was 20 ½ inches.

The five towns that use the Nobleboro-Jefferson Transfer Station will pay 4.86 percent more toward the station budget in 2015.

A 24-year-old Waldoboro woman faces a charge of operating under the influence after she fell asleep on the way home from a methadone clinic, crossed the centerline of Route 1 in Warren, and caused a head-on accident Sunday, Jan. 11.

Rehabilitation of Boothbay’s Barter’s Island Bridge, a traffic signal at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 in Wiscasset, and easement acquisition for Wiscasset Municipal Airport are among approximately 50 projects in the Maine Department of Transportation’s three-year work plan for Lincoln County.

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.