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.

At a Wiscasset High School assembly Dec. 19, the vast majority of Wiscasset High School students raised their hands when Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline asked them, “How many of you think a drug problem exists at this school?”

Though the official transition will not take place until Thursday, Jan. 2, the new manager of the Nobleboro-Jefferson Transfer Station started work Dec. 21 and has been training under his predecessor.

All three occupants of a mini-van that burned the afternoon of Dec. 27 escaped unharmed, but traffic was held up for an hour as emergency personnel dealt with the scene.

Waldoboro Police Department has hired Tammi Morrison as its new school resource officer, Police Chief Bill Labombarde said Dec. 20.

Don Hewett has been serving as the Somerville Forest Fire Warden for so long, the Maine Forest Service did not even have his start date in their system, according to Somerville Fire Chief Mike Dostie.

Despite residents and a town official raising a variety of concerns, Bremen voters authorized the town to expend up to $60,000 for improving a town-owned waterfront property at special town meeting Dec. 12.

The movie series sponsored by the Sierra Club continues this month with “Betting The Farm” showing free of charge on Monday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m.

A Newcastle special town meeting next week will affect the futures of an apartment building, a condominium project and an electrical substation.