At open town meeting May 31, Wiscasset voters approved withdrawing $1.25 million in reserve funds to lower taxes, approved hiring a school resource officer, and raised the appropriation for the library by almost 15 percent.

The following property transfers were recorded recently at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset:

Alna: Stephen Averill to Daniel Harold Averill;

Lincoln Academy junior Abbie Healey received the 2014 Ruth Ives Humanitarian Award for her commitment to social justice and equality at the Lincoln Academy all-school assembly May 23.

Wiscasset resident and Vietnam veteran Barry Cheney lost his U.S. Military ID tags in September 1968, in the jungle of Chu lei, South Vietnam, when a mine exploded, killing his friend, and seriously injuring him and several members of his company.

Two Lincoln County residents have been charged with aggravated drug trafficking after a search of their car after a late night traffic stop May 15 resulted in the discovery $72,000 worth of heroin.

Harvest Moon, Waldoboro’s newest restaurant, opened for business May 8 and its owner-operator is aiming to make a “farm-to-restaurant” concept economically viable.

A fire started by a cigarette destroyed an apartment at 3 Hendrick’s Hill Rd. in Southport early May 6.

Updated May 30 at 4:50 p.m.
The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in the woods of Whitefield was able to walk out under his own power.

Paul L. Chapman, 46, Richmond, domestic violence assault, March 12; criminal mischief, March 12, both dismissed.

Scott Grady, 30, Bethlehem, N.H., criminal trespass, Nov. 5, 2013, dismissed.

The first Big Lebowski Day held in Waldoboro May 25 drew a small but excited crowd to “celebrate all things ‘Dude.'”

Jim Hilton is stepping down next month after roughly 23 years service on the Jefferson Board of Selectmen.

By a vote of 75-35, Wiscasset voters approved the $9.4 million school budget as recommended by the Wiscasset School Board at the budget adoption meeting on May 15.

Government Notices Bristol Bristol Mills Cemetery Association Meeting The annual meeting will be held in the Bristol Congregational Church Vestry, Wednesday, May 21, at 7:00 PM. Lot owners and their Heirs are eligible to attend and are urged to do so. The Bristol Planning Board will have a business meeting on Thursday, May 15th at […]

When Heather Hilton Clark lost her Lincoln Academy class ring in 1989, she was sure it was gone forever.