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Boothbay Harbor Residents Sail Through Town Meeting
In less than an hour, a handful of Boothbay Harbor residents approved a 24-article town meeting warrant totaling $4,118,853 May 3. The new budget represents an increase of less than one percent over last year’s town budget.
More than 75 Lincoln County residents met with elected state officials April 28 to air questions and concerns about the wind mill test project to be installed two miles south of Monhegan Island.
Parents Mike and Liza Hall and siblings Adeline, Lila, Alden, and Pearl Jane Hall, of Bremen, are overjoyed to announce the arrival of a baby sister, Clementine Elizabeth.
The Damariscotta Police Department responded to 133 calls including motor vehicle stops, arrests, calls for service, etc. during this one week period of time and reports the following activity:
Wiscasset High School artists and musicians showcased their talent May 22 at the school’s annual Spring Gallery of the Arts.
With little discussion, voters attending the RSU 12 budget adoption meeting May 20 at the Whitefield Elementary School adopted a $19.7 million budget for fiscal year 2015.
Willa Antczak, Waldoboro’s planning and development director, has resigned from her position to accept a new job with the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust.
The Damariscotta Police Department’s new cruiser has a fresh style that sets it apart from past department vehicles, thanks to the fourth-graders at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta.
Data shared by RSU 40 staff on student proficiency in reading and math shows nearly all the district’s schools are falling short of state-set – but school-specific – goals.
A Boothbay Harbor man has pleaded guilty to stealing prescription stimulants from mentally disabled students while working as a custodian at Boothbay Region Elementary School.
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.
