Starting Monday, July 14, join Cynthia Simonds for two exciting swing dance classes upstairs at Rising Tide Community Market in the new FARMS Community Kitchen space.

Government Notices Bremen The Bremen Board of Selectmen Meeting on Thurs., July 17, 2014will begin at 4:30 Newcastle Newcastle Residents SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Monday, July 14, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. there will be a Special Town Meeting at the Newcastle Town Office to vote on the following articles: ARTICLE 1: T choose a moderator by […]

A passenger train will arrive at the Newcastle station at 12:15 p.m., Friday, July 4. The train whistle will herald the return of passenger rail to Newcastle after a half-century’s absence.

The schooner Eastwind travels eight knots into a headwind off Boothbay Harbor. At the helm, Herb Smith quietly charts a course for Burnt Island.

The Damariscotta Police Department reports the following activity:

ArrestsRobyn L. Collamore, 39, Damariscotta, failure to appear, June 26.

Updated July 30 at 3:55 p.m.

A Connecticut man faces a felony charge of furnishing liquor to a minor in connection with the deaths of two teenagers in a high-speed, single-vehicle accident in Boothbay July 30.

Jefferson Village Cemetery has been rutted up by vehicles again, marking at least the second such incident this year, according to the cemetery association’s president, Julie Stegna.

A motorcycle traveling north on Academy Hill Road in Newcastle collided with a southbound garbage truck at approximately 3:15 p.m. July 18. No one was seriously injured.

A Boothbay Harbor man is facing an animal cruelty charge after allegedly leaving his dog in a hot vehicle while he attended a concert on Thursday in Mansfield, Massachusetts, according to police.

Richard L. Ames, 20, Wiscasset, assault, May 22, $300.

Glenn A. Barbour, 52, Waldoboro, operate vehicle without license, May 30, $150, waived.

Claiming the time was right for a change, the Board of Directors of the Lincoln County Animal Shelter elected a new president to replace Lorraine Nickerson who has served in the capacity for over 40 years.

Philip and Katie Bellows, of Waldoboro, are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Rebekah Carol Bellows.

Many customers of Tidewater Telecom and Lincolnville Communications, two subsidiaries of Lincolnville Telephone Company, will soon have the option of getting Internet protocol television through the companies’ growing fiber-optic network.

An unscheduled plea hearing on the case of a Waldoboro attorney accused of domestic violence assault held in Cumberland County July 11 resulted in the primary charge being dismissed and a guilty plea being accepted on lesser charges.