A Maine Department of Transportation plan to install a traffic light at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 in Wiscasset met with concern from downtown business owners during a meeting at Wiscasset High School May 21.

Meeting May 14, the Bristol Board of Selectmen unanimously accepted a petition to hold a special open town meeting to consider preventing transmission cables from an offshore wind power project coming ashore on Bristol public land.

The petition had 225 accepted signatures of registered Bristol voters, well over the 160 signature threshold required to validate the petition.

After serving only one and a half years on the board of directors of the Lincoln County Animal Shelter/Boothbay Region Humane Society, Michaela Stone of Alna has submitted her resignation, citing the board’s inability to make the necessary decisions to keep the shelter operating.

Wiscasset’s selectmen and budget committee have agreed to a suggestion from interim Town Manager Don Gerrish to support withdrawing $1.25 million from the town’s reserve account to reduce taxes for this year.

---

Whitefield Man Indicted on 12 Charges of Sex Crimes
A Whitefield man has been indicted on a dozen felony charges for allegedly compelling a teenage girl to engage in sexual acts on six different occasions in the fall of 2012.

Man Indicted For Allegedly Strangling Pregnant Wife in Boothbay

Harbor
A U.K. citizen faces assault charges for allegedly using a belt to strangle his pregnant wife and drag her around their Boothbay Harbor apartment last December.

Nobleboro Man Indicted On Four Counts Gross Sexual Assault
A Lincoln County Grand Jury has indicted a Nobleboro man on four counts of gross sexual assault, all Class A felonies.

Grand Jury Indicts Bristol Man Who Accidentally Shot Himself
A Bristol man who accidentally shot himself with a shotgun in March faces felony charges for illegally possessing a firearm.

Boothbay Man Gets 2 Years for Unlawful Sexual Contact
A 43-year-old Boothbay man will serve two years in prison and eight years of probation for sexually abusing a 9-year-old female relative in February 2012.

Naked Man Allegedly Assaults Female Bicyclist in Nobleboro
A Damariscotta man faces a felony assault charge after allegedly attacking and strangling a female bicyclist, all while he was naked, in Nobleboro April 21.

---

 

When Vera Cleaves walked into Ship’s Chow Hall Sunday afternoon she did not know that she was going to be greeted by family members and friends who had gathered there to celebrate her 100th birthday with her.

A U.K. citizen faces assault charges for allegedly using a belt to strangle his pregnant wife and drag her around their Boothbay Harbor apartment last December.

New appointments dominated Wiscasset School Board business on May 22, as the board filled 11 positions for the new school system, including the appointment of Wiscasset Primary School’s principal and the system-wide curriculum director.

Pfc. Andrew Small, of Wiscasset, died in Nangalam, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2006, when his platoon came under fire by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire. Each year since his death, his parents, Cindy and Terry Small, have attended the Memorial Day service in Wiscasset, where Small’s name is engraved on the veterans monument.

Government Notices Bristol Bristol Mills Storage 1001 Bristol Road Bristol, Maine Storage Unit Auction May 31 • 10:00 a.m. Unit #3 – B. Sack Unit #41 – Z. Hill TOWN OF BRISTOL Harbor Committee Meeting Thurs., May 29 at 6pm Bristol Town Hall Public Invited Bristol Mills Cemetery Association Meeting The annual meeting will be […]

A Jefferson woman must pay the state more than $10,000 in restitution and could go to jail for fraudulently collecting unemployment for almost a year.

A brother and sister are teaming up to establish a high-density orchard on the site of Commodore Samuel Tucker’s former farmstead in Bremen.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vannah, of Warren, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Kate Vannah, to Joshua David Luce, son of Karen and Scott Reed, of Burketville, and David and Mackayla Luce, of Fallbrook, Cal.

The annual Jefferson Jubilee set a new fundraising record May 2, following the trend of record-setting each year since the event’s inception, according to Kristi Bisset, president of the Jefferson Village School Parent Teacher Association.