Nobleboro resident Susan Pinnetti-Isabel started work Tuesday, Oct. 14 as the town’s new deputy clerk.

Three months after volunteer leaders of the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship were told the group could no longer meet on campus because they would not agree to abide by Bowdoin College’s nondiscrimination policy related to religion and sexual orientation, the organization has relocated to a building just off the Brunswick campus.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday sued a Lincoln County farm in U.S. District Court, alleging that its owners allowed male supervisors to sexually harass seasonal female workers.

Melissa Johnson of Nobleboro and Brandon Johnson of Honolulu, Hawaii were granted a divorce on Aug. 6. They were married in Leavenworth, Kan. on Sept. 18, 2012. Shared parental rights of one minor child.

Alna selectmen were urged at their meeting Oct. 8 to appoint a representative from Alna to serve on the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Strategic Planning Committee.

Arnie Gamage, of South Bristol, caught a rare tan lobster on Oct. 6 off the South Bristol coastline. “I’ve been fishing for 40 years. I have caught red ones, black ones, and blue ones, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” Gamage said of the rare crustacean.

Maine’s First Lady Ann LePage and former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills kicked off The Maine Values Veterans: Employment and Community Engagement conference in Edgecomb, which focused on helping to create jobs for Maine’s veterans.

Meggan Peters and Josh Meklin, of Cushing, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, MacKenzie Sue-Elin Meklin.

A Jefferson man was indicted by grand jury Sept. 10 on charges of aggravated assault, a class B felony, and domestic violence assault, a class D misdemeanor, for allegedly choking, slapping, and throwing a woman across a room in July.

The Wiscasset Parks and Recreation Department’s seventh annual Scarecrow Festival held Saturday, Oct. 18, was a very successful event according to Parks and Recreation Director Todd Souza.

After an extensive nationwide search, the Board of Directors of the Central Lincoln County YMCA has announced Meagan Hamblett as the Y’s new CEO.

Power outages were on the increase in Lincoln County following a night with high winds and heavy rainfall. Power outages increased from 27 to 81 during the overnight hours, with households in six Lincoln County towns affected by the outages. Boothbay and Nobleboro were hardest hit, with 25 households in each town suffering from power outages.

Sunday, Oct. 5: here we are in the middle of the month of October which doesn’t seem possible. This is my first column of the month and a new week of my life at Crawford Commons.

Motorists on Rt. 1 in Wiscasset reported Oct. 14 that a number of campaign signs for U.S. Senator Susan Collins had been vandalized by someone who spray painted a symbol resembling a swastika on them. While the swastika image was painted in reverse, the intent of the vandal was clear, according to observers including Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline.