The Boothbay Fire Dept. and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) responded to the area of the Damariscotta River near Meadow Island for a possible missing boater Friday evening, and were able to ascertain that no one was missing, according to the Lincoln County Communications Center (LCCC).

Coastal Enterprises Incorporated, or CEI, has signed a purchase option agreement to purchase properties in Brunswick. Their plan is to consolidate their Wiscasset and Portland operations into one building on Federal Street in Brunswick by 2015.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has charged two inmates at the Two Bridges Regional Jail with trafficking in prison contraband following an investigation into an alleged assault which took place at the Wiscasset facility the weekend of Aug. 4.

Four people were arrested last week as a result of a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into heroin distribution in Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties.

In an effort to keep Wiscasset’s potential withdrawal from Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 from impacting the mill rate, a citizens’ petition is being circulated in Wiscasset that proposes withdrawing money form the town’s reserve account to fund the process.

Two Waldoboro police officers, Detective Jason Benefield and Officer Jeremy Jocelyn, have resigned and taken new positions due to job security concerns relating to proposed budget cuts, according to Chief Bill Labombarde.

Change is on the wind as the new principal at Medomak Middle School settles in to her new position and aims to keep up the school’s momentum in transitioning to a standards-based learning system.

Wiscasset town officials gathered to welcome the opening of Trucks by Norm, an expansion of Norm’s Used Cars in Wiscasset with a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday afternoon.

A landscaping firm will complete $39,000 of repairs to the athletics field at Bristol Consolidated School, necessary after a June criminal mischief incident, next week.

Patriot Landscaping of Gorham will perform the work after submitting the only bid.

A single vehicle roll-over accident on Bunker Hill Road (Route 213) in Jefferson the morning of Aug. 16 was the result of an over-correction by the driver, according to Deputy Justin Drake of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in regard to a weather front that should chug through Lincoln County between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. tonight.

Lincoln County Fire Academy officers traveled to Monhegan the weekend of Aug. 24 and 25 to provide training in drafting and pump operations for island firefighters.

Mother Judith N. Fox and grandmother Loraine Nickerson, of Boothbay, announce the engagement of daughter Sarah E. Fox to George Warren Passage.

Defense attorney Peter Marchesi has responded to allegations detailed in a lawsuit filed against the Two Bridges Regional Jail by a former inmate.