A new fitness studio planned to open in the former Allied Tool & Fastener building in Waldoboro as soon as Monday, May 19 will offer group exercise classes and personal training services.

The Westport Island Board of Selectmen will put the citizens petition asking the voters if they want to discontinue the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit withdrawal process on the ballot for the June 10 election.

Boothbay voters created a tax increment financing district and signed off on the donation of an under-utilized town property during annual town meeting May 5.

In a report published May 8, the National Transportation Safety Board has identified the probable cause of a plane crash in Owls Head in November 2012 that claimed the lives of three young men.

During the last third of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, Dr. Charles W. Eliot served as the president of Harvard University. In speeches and classroom lectures he was oft quoted as claiming that a liberal arts education could be obtained by anyone who was willing to spend 15 minutes per day reading from an appropriate collection of classics which could fit on a 5-foot shelf.

At special town meeting May 27, 135 Jefferson voters adopted a $5,173,053 K-12 education budget recommended by the Jefferson School Committee. Voters will have the opportunity to validate the budget at referendum on June 10.

Damariscotta/NewcastleThe Twin Villages Annual Memorial Day parade begins promptly at 11 a.m., Monday, May 26, at The Lincoln County News parking lot on Route 215/Mills Road. Only those previously registered will be permitted.

This weekend at the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration Festival on Bayview Road in Nobleboro twelve bushels of smoked alewives will be available for sale just across the road at Mulligan’s Smoked Alewives.

When the Wiscasset Middle School final bell rings marking the end of the school year, it will also mark the end of the careers of four veteran educators whose combined years of educational experience total more than 140 years.

Wiscasset shop owner Heather Peaslee said so many people have helped her and her four children through a very difficult winter, and she wants to give back some of the kindness that was shown to her.

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.

Senator Chris Johnson, D-Somerville, will hold his monthly in-district office hours on Saturday, May 10, in three locations.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

Recent summonsesMay 1, Amanda M. Wallace, 31, of Nobleboro was issued a summons for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, on Bayview Road, Nobleboro, by Deputy Kenneth Hatch.

South Bristol School kindergarten teacher Nancy Hatch will complete 43 years of classroom service to Maine children and launch into her retirement and the next chapter of her life when the final bell rings at noon June 20.