Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline reports the following arrests, summonses and accidents:

ArrestsAnthony Baker, 23, Union, theft by unauthorized use of property, speeding (30+ over the speed limit), eluding an officer and driving to endanger, Sept. 21.

The 2014 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta drew banner crowds this year on Columbus Day weekend. Local police estimated the crowd at the Pumpkin Parade on Saturday alone as greater than 8,000 spectators.

A Waldoboro man is being held in lieu of $15,000 cash bail after he was arrested Oct. 2 on charges of gross sexual assault, attempted gross sexual assault, and burglary – all class B felonies.

A prominent Waldoboro attorney who pleaded guilty to lesser charges in July after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence assault in November 2013 had his deferred disposition in the case terminated Oct. 3.

While the arrangement with RSU 12 to provide the business office services satisfied an immediate need for the new Wiscasset School Department, interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage told the Wiscasset School Board Sept. 24, the distance between Wiscasset and Somerville is not working out.

Say what you will about Ed Bosarge, one of Maine’s biggest individual donors to political campaigns – and the single biggest donor to Republicans – but never say, “He’s no rocket scientist.”

An Alna woman faces a felony assault charge after allegedly throwing a toy at her 4-year-old son, striking him in the face, although the woman said it was an accident.

Expected to be up and running within a month, a new geothermal heating system at Lincoln County Publishing Company will heat around 10,000 square feet of the company’s facilities, according to Publisher Chris Roberts.

You could call Cyrus Hagge one of Portland’s most civically and culturally active citizens.

Or you could say he really likes going to meetings.

A prominent Waldoboro attorney could face up to full disbarment from practicing law in Maine if allegations he engaged in “conduct unworthy of an attorney” and violated certain professional standards are found to have occurred.

The Dresden Board of Selectmen is considering a parking ban to address safety concerns at the corner of Gardiner Road (Route 27) and Middle Road (Route 127/197).

Alna Republican Leslie T. “Les” Fossel is running against Democrat incumbent Sen. Chris Johnson for Senate District 13, representing Washington, Windsor, and all of Lincoln County except Dresden. This is the second go-round for both candidates; Johnson and Fossel previously faced off to represent the same region in 2012.

Damariscotta-based Ocean Classroom ceased operations in August, but the experiential education organization’s three schooners have found new owners and a new nonprofit may continue Ocean Classroom’s style of programming under a new business model.

A Waldoboro woman was arrested for allegedly trafficking cocaine after law enforcement executed a search warrant on her Castner Road home Oct. 1, according to a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency press release.