A Bristol man faces a felony drug-trafficking charge after law enforcement allegedly seized a large quantity of marijuana, as well as cocaine and firearms, from his home Friday, Sept. 19.

Before a packed library at the Wiscasset High School the Wiscasset School Board voted 3 to 2 on September 15 to close the Wiscasset Primary School, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.

A daughter, Caroline Faith Bennett, was born Sept. 4 to Rebecca Nantz and Timothy Bennett at their home in Southport.

Government Notices Bristol Bristol Planning Board Agenda 9/18/2014, 7:00 p.m. Bristol Town Hall 1. Eric Lax and Karen Sulz-berger, 120 South Side Road (Map 22 Lot 6A), plumbing permit application on dock. Damariscotta Public Notice Town of Damariscotta Public Hearing & Special Town Meeting The Municipal Officers of the Town of Damariscotta will hold a […]

Corey Morris and Kristin Hodgdon and big sister Breannah Morris, of Tenants Harbor, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Bayleigh Spring Morris.

A Boothbay man and two teenage girls suffered injuries, some serious, in a single-vehicle rollover accident on Butler Road in Boothbay early Tuesday, Sept. 2.

The Gardiner man who struck a deer while riding a motorycle in Whitefield Sunday, Sept. 28, died as a result his injuries, Monday, Sept. 29, at the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

Chief Kirk Frances, of the Penobscot Nation, and James Sappier, former chief and current Penobscot Elder Council member, sent a letter to three of the five Wiscasset selectmen Sept. 4 asking them to overturn the board’s decision allowing a private road in town be named Redskin’s Drive.

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The agenda for a special meeting scheduled for the Jefferson School Committee today has been revised to include an executive session with the committee’s attorney as the only actionable item.

Seth Hagar, vice president of Hagar Enterprises Inc., told the Alna Board of Selectman Sept. 10, his company is still interested in entering into a snowplowing contract, but some proposed changes in the contract has delayed the signing of the contract.

Isaac Merservey Ward II, 34, Waldoboro, commercial shellfishing without license, $500.

Woods for the busy shipyardsLincoln County News – Fall 1899 – “Great excitement in town! Supplies for the Welt shipyard have begun to arrive.” The story goes on to report the arrival of 32,000 Blue Ridge Mountain treenails by rail; large order of juniper knees by rail; one and one half million board feet of Virginia hard pine by rail and by sea; 140 tons of iron by rail – and more to come by sea.

Waldoboro’s shipbuilding heritage was being reborn after a period of years.

The Maine State Police criminal investigation unit excavated human remains believed to be long-missing Charles E. “Chuck” Woodburn at 219 Neck Road in Jefferson Wednesday, Aug. 27. Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland said the State Medical Examiner’s Office has reported that the individual was a victim of a homicide.

The Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce is moving into a new office in downtown Newcastle, in the building formerly home to The Bank of Maine.