A piece of town-owned waterfront property on Westport Island provides public access to the Back River for both recreational and commercial use. The site, the Wright Landing is a historical site for the people of Westport Island.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Lincoln County. The advisory is unusually scant with information but apparently concerns a fast moving line of thunderstorms tracking east-northeast and just entering New Hampshire at the time of this posting, according to radar images monitored at intellicast.com. The NWS advisory is in effect until 9 p.m. Saturday evening. Local broadcast forecasters have timed the arrival of the storm for the late afternoon and early evening hours.

Pemaquid Watershed Association’s annual meeting on Wednesday, July 17, at Lakehurst Lodge in Damariscotta will feature a talk by Maine Audubon biologist Susan Gallo, “The Challenges of Parenthood: How Where and Why Nesting Common Loons Succeed (or Fail) in Maine.”

One man was hospitalized in serious condition and another was charged with two felonies as the result of an alleged confrontation behind the Wiscasset Municipal Building the morning of July 10.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen agreed to present voters with a budget that is not supported by the town’s budget committee, following a two-and-a-half-hour-long meeting July 18.

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners gave approval to recommended prisoner transport and program budgets for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, but want the Board of Corrections to know the budgets are not high enough.

Following discussion during a July 24 special meeting, the Jefferson School Committee will convene another special meeting Monday July 29 at 6 p.m.

Newcastle small-business man and former four-term state Rep. Jon McKane believes he can unite the fractured Maine Republican Party if he wins the chairmanship tomorrow.

Both operators escaped injury in a two-car collision on School Street July 5, according to Damariscotta Deputy Police Chief Chad Andrews.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a fatal two-car collision in Nobleboro Friday morning as 83-year-old Katharine Brown, of Nobleboro.

The Maine State Legislature has passed a bill sponsored by local lawmakers that will protect area taxpayers against private school tuition charges for non-resident students.

Darick and Terri Herald of Walpole are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Charlotte Marie Herald.

Arline Lawless was sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered to pay $4500 in restitution in Lincoln County Superior Court this morning for her role in the shooting death of 34-year-old Norman Benner of Waldoboro.

No one was injured in a rear-end collision in Damariscotta the afternoon of July 18, according to Damariscotta Police Officer Jason Warlick.