The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is promoting Free Fishing Days Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1 to encourage people to get out and experience Maine’s waterways.

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, vandals raced their vehicle(s) through the new section of Village Cemetery in Jefferson. The cemetery is maintained by volunteers, who worked all week to mow and clean up the cemetery in time for Memorial Day weekend. They finished their work on Friday.

Three people, including one Waldoboro woman, were seriously injured in a head-on collision in Washington at 11 a.m. May 23, according to a press release from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

The Jefferson School Committee voted May 15 to pursue a legal resolution to contamination and soil quality issues with the Jefferson Village School baseball field, pending town approval.

When Edgecomb voters gather for annual town meeting May 17, they will consider a proposed town budget of $3,573,865, which represents a slight, 0.28 percent increase over last year’s budget.

By Naomi SchalitMaine Center for Public Interest ReportingThe state public advocate’s office, which represents the interests of utility customers in Maine, has withdrawn its opposition to a multimillion-dollar transaction to build wind turbines across Maine and the Northeast.

A man police say was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Bremen Road in Waldoboro May 2 has been charged with two Class E crimes, according to Waldoboro Police Officer Larry Hesseltine.

Two veteran public servants have declared themselves write-in candidates for the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen.

Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, is performing tree trimming work in 30 communities in Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties over the coming weeks. The work along utility lines is part of a $20 million annual vegetation management program.

United Way of Mid Coast Maine presented a Community Builder Award to Damariscotta Bank & Trust Company for wide-ranging support of local people and nonprofits at its annual meeting.

A New Harbor man died at 6 p.m., Monday, May 26 from injuries sustained in a high-speed, single-vehicle accident in Damariscotta late Sunday, May 25. Police suspect alcohol was a factor in the crash.

A Nobleboro man injured in an accident in Waldoboro May 15 is home and recovering after being taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland and being treated for two collapsed lungs.

Updated May 14 at 2:00 p.m.
A polarizing proposal to install floating wind turbines off Monhegan Island did not receive an important $47 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

An 18-year-old Jefferson woman was not hurt when the car she was driving hit a utility pole and rolled over in Jefferson Friday, May 9.