The Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Board of Directors has approved weekly early release Wednesdays for teacher professional development in the 2013-2014 school year.

Nancie Atwell began her teaching career in the early 1970s at the Boothbay Harbor Grammar School, later at the Boothbay Regional Elementary School. The founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb and the seventh and eight grade teacher for reading, writing and history will retire next month.

The Damariscotta Police Damariscotta Police Department responded to 156 calls including motor vehicle stops, arrests, calls for service, etc. during this one week period of time and report the following activities from the previous week:

Arrests/SummonsesApril 24, Brooke D. Cotter, 39 of Damariscotta was summoned to court for operating after suspension and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident.

Maine State Police are planning additional patrols and several special enforcement efforts beginning Friday for the long Memorial Day weekend.

Residents of several roads in Bristol can expect construction to begin soon as a local contractor prepares the roads for paving later in the season.

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Olson of Waldoboro announce the engagement of their daughter Abigail Olson to Alexander Braley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Griffith Braley of Damariscotta.

Hanley’s Market, the convenience store, gas station and takeout eatery at the intersection of Routes 129 and 130 in Bristol, has a new owner.

Traffic will be reduced to one alternating lane along Route 128 (River Road) in Dresden and Woolwich today due to paving, according to Department of Transportation press release.

Lincoln County Healthcare will not continue to make a $10,000 annual payment to Damariscotta in lieu of taxes on almost $30 million of exempt property.

Wesley Clermont, 22, Waldoboro, attaching false plates, $150.

A 54-year-old Waldoboro man who police say sexually assaulted a 5-year-old female relative in 2011 faces charges of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact.

“Motherhood Out Loud” opened at Lincoln Theater last weekend to sizable crowds. This is the first time this play has been produced in Maine.

The newest Maine Isshinryu Karate Academy has opened for business on Davis Island in Edgecomb.

Lincoln Academy Head of School Jay Pinkerton will start a new job as principal of Morse High School at the end of the school year.