Medomak Valley High School has canceled all home sports events on the schedule for Sat., Dec. 14 as a result of a broken water pipe at the school. The home events included a 10 a.m. wrestling meet as well as freshman, junior varsity and varsity girls basketball games originally scheduled for 3:30, 5 and 6:30 p.m.

Wiscasset High School students and staff are hoping to make the holidays a little merrier for struggling families through its 100 Points of Light program.

Maine Sen. Chris Johnson, D-Somerville, has been recognized for his work on issues like food safety, public education and the sustainability of Maine fisheries. Now, Johnson hopes to solve another problem: a long-standing error in the official punctuation of a state holiday.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On Dec. 4, Deputy Matthew Day took a report of a theft/burglary to a wood splitter (approximate value: $750) from a residence in the Bristol area. The complainant stated that sometime in the past few weeks, someone(s) stole his 6-hp wood splitter from a barn on his property.

A new pawn shop in Damariscotta offers a variety of secondhand items, from antiques and jewelry to furniture and stamps.

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.