An Appleton man who was the subject of a search after allegedly fleeing from police and crashing his pickup truck in Union has been arrested.

Jyang-Lee’s Kitchen, a Whitefield company, is voluntarily recalling all Jyang-Lee’s Kitchen brand poultry products that did not receive the full benefit of inspection. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Maine Meat and Poultry Inspection program made the announcement May 29.

Fifty-three residents of Bremen, Damariscotta, and Newcastle approved a 4.69 percent increase in the Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District budget at the annual meeting May 29.

The former Bank of Maine building and lot in Newcastle was purchased the final week of May by Dirk and Ann Poole, owners of Ma’s Bobbin Works of Nobleboro.

A Boothbay man pleaded guilty in Lincoln County Superior Court June 26 to five charges of possession of sexually explicit materials and could face as much as two years in prison when sentenced later this year.

A Waldoboro woman is being held without bail after she was arrested for allegedly shoplifting in a store next door to one she allegedly robbed in February.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen elected Pam Dunning chairman Tuesday, June 17, in its first meeting since the June 10 election.

A Waldoboro man was sentenced to a year in jail with all but 60 days suspended and a year of probation for his role in a high-speed chase in Wiscasset in May 2013.

Complaints regarding the placement of two free-standing crosswalk signs in Damariscotta were conveyed at the June 4 Damariscotta Board of Selectmen meeting by Chair Josh Pinkham.

Students in Laurie Brown’s third grade class got made up and dressed up the week of June 4 to perform three showings of an elementary school adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Waldoboro voters passed all budgets by referendum at annual town meeting June 10, and elected Jann Minzy and Clint Collamore to the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen.

Lincoln County Health Care has been granted a certificate of need by the state related to the merger of St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor and Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, but it comes with strings attached.

John Dmitry Pepper became Jefferson Troop 216’s newest Eagle Scout on Sunday, June 1. When he joined in 2009, he had never been on a hike, cooked over a fire, gone camping, or done any of the hundreds of skills he learned on his journey to Eagle.

The Maine Coast Book Shop marks its 50th year in business in 2014, according to owner Susan Porter.