Power outages in Lincoln County were down to five on Saturday morning, until warmer temps started enough melting to cause falling ice and shifting tree branches. New outages had climbed to 34 as of the 2:19 p.m. report from Central Maine Power Company.

A man and boy who were the subjects of a brief search in Damariscotta are safe and were never missing.

A rear-end accident on Route 1 and a subsequent rear-end accident in the opposite lane occurring five minutes later in the same area, created a “substantial traffic issue” Dec. 6, according to Waldoboro Police Chief Bill Labombarde.

The runaway gingerbread man known as “Gingy” has been captured and safely returned to the kindergarteners at Miller School, according to Waldoboro Police Chief Bill Labombarde.

A Damariscotta man faces charges after allegedly shooting at a deer from his truck as another vehicle was going by.

The support staff – bus drivers, custodians, educational technicians, food-service workers and secretaries – at three local schools have unionized.

Winter has made a grand entrance in Lincoln County, with two snowstorms and an ice storm battering the area within a seven-day period.

Updated Dec. 31 at 2:00 p.m.

Snowfall totals fell below the 6 to 10 inches predicted from the late Sunday afternoon storm that stretched into the early morning hours of Monday, Dec. 30. However, another round of power outages caused by the storm continued to keep Central Maine Power crews busy and customers without power frustrated.

Power outages that covered over 25 percent of Lincoln County on Christmas Eve have been reduced to only 80 households as of the 10:49 p.m. (Fri., Dec. 27) report from Central Maine Power Company.

Updated 12/21 at 11:30 a.m. — Winter Storm Watch upgraded to Ice Storm Warning.

Conditions are coming together for Sunday that could bring over half an inch of ice accumulation to Lincoln County, according to the latest bulletin from the National Weather Service.

After 31 years of teaching, Wiscasset High School teacher Shari Templeton has decided to close the door on her public teaching career effective Jan. 24, 2014 and has accepted a position with the Maine Department of Education as a state science specialist.

Updated at 6:25 p.m. Dec. 13. The latest bulletin from the National Weather Service has upgraded their alert for the first major snowstorm of the season to a Winter Storm Warning, meaning that “severe winter weather conditions are expected or occurring.” The NWS snowfall accumulation estimate has been upgraded to 10 to 14 inches and gusty winds to 40 mph have also been added to the Warning.

The Bremen Board of Selectmen and the Bremen Town House Committee are looking at the first steps in a rehabilitation project of the Bremen Town House which is roughly estimated to cost $345,000 in all.

A 27-year-old Waldoboro man guilty of burglary and already in jail faces a new charge of gross sexual assault for allegedly engaging in a sexual act with a then-13-year-old girl.