The Regional School Unit/Maine School Administrative District 40 Board of Directors has decided to return to the table with the Many Flags/One Community project, at the end of a three-and-three-quarter-hour meeting, April 11.

A meeting between the Jefferson School Board and the municipal budget committee, originally set for February, has been rescheduled.

Governor Paul R. LePage is calling for the State of Maine to join the people of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a Moment of Silence on Monday afternoon to mark one week following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 is considering starting school two hours later on Wednesdays during full five-day weeks next school year, according to acting Superintendent Patricia Watts.

Bremen voters unanimously approved the purchase of 10 acres of land off Route 32 from Charles Hay, to be used for water access recreation and conservation by the town.

Nobleboro voters will have their final say on the school budget that was approved at the March 16 town meeting, when they go to the polls Friday, April 5.

A 70-year-old Bremen resident and Episcopal priest has plead guilty to the Class D misdemeanor of possession of a schedule W Drug, namely suboxone, a drug that reduces the symptoms of opiate dependence.

Nicole McKay and Patrick Wenners of Edgecomb are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Mason Reidy Wenners.

Dale B. Witham, 54, of Bremen was one of three Maine men arrested and charged with illegally harvesting more than 24,000 juvenile eels from Absecon Creek in Absecon, N.J.

Regulators have made changes that will extend the season for Northern shrimp and allow larger catches for the trap fishery.

Fire departments from four Lincoln County towns have cleared the scene of a fire at the Washburn & Doughty shipyard in East Boothbay. A fire that started in the ventilation system at approximately 5:30 p.m. was controlled in about 45 minutes, according to Boothbay Fire Chief Richard Spofford. Damage from the flames was restricted to the area around the ventilation system, and was not considered major, according to Spofford. No injuries were reported.

Convening in the Town Office March 4, Southport’s annual town meeting demonstrated its usual good cheer, while dispatching a 66-article warrant in just under three hours.

Voters approved every budget item as proposed, granting themselves, as Selectman Gerry Gamage suggested at the start of the meeting, a slight tax cut.

The Somerville Town Office will be open for regular business for an extra hour Friday, March 29.

A member of the Newcastle-Nobleboro Fish Committee said authorities plan to watch the waters below the Damariscotta Mills fish ladder for people illegally harvesting elvers.