Three long-distance runners with ties to Lincoln County competed in the 2013 Boston Marathon. Two finished, including former Waldoboro man Robert Gomez, of Saco and 2005 Wiscasset High School graduate Maryellen Buck, and one Dr. Stephen Reed of Wiscasset, was trying to finish his 24th straight Boston Marathon, before being stopped.

As many as 80 teachers from Regional School Unit/School Administrative District 40 crowded into a double classroom at Medomak Middle School, April 4, to hear the president of their collective bargaining unit address the district’s board of directors.

A number of potential changes facing elver fisheries on the Atlantic coast have prompted Maine elver fishermen to form a professional group to protect their interests.

Governor Paul R. LePage ordered the flags of the United States and State of Maine be flown at half-staff effective immediately through sunset on Saturday, April 20 in accordance with a Presidential proclamation.

When two explosions rocked downtown Boston Monday afternoon, Waldoboro native Robert Gomez had already finished the famed Boston Marathon and was with some of his friends about a thousand feet away in the Prudential Center. “It shook the Prudential Center enough that people were panicking and running out of the building,” Gomez said.

Julia Clukey, a 27-year-old Olympic and National Champion luger from Augusta, spoke at Wiscasset High School on April 5, where she encouraged trying new things, setting goals, and working hard.

Representative Ellen Winchenbach, R-Waldoboro, expressed concerns about a proposed revenue sharing cut, but “nothing is set in stone with the state budget at this time” when Lincoln County residents met with legislators, March 18.

Citizens of Whitefield and Jefferson will have opportunities to weigh in on an April 1 request by Pleasant Pond Mill, LLC, for permission to abandon the dam at Clary Lake and sell or otherwise convey ownership to another entity.

The following property transfers were recorded recently at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset:

Alna: Susan L. Hood to Timothy D. Acord and Carol L. Lee Minnehan; Geroge E. Manley to Timothy D. Acord and Carol L. Lee Minnehan;

Annually, thousands of telecommunicators, dispatchers, and communications officers across the country are honored during the second full week of April during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.

At an informational meeting on a proposed multimillion dollar paving project for Edgecomb April 8, attendees gave positive feedback and asked about expanding the project to include paving the town’s dirt roads.

Somerville residents will see a new face behind the town clerk’s desk, after voters elected outgoing selectman Martha Staples to that position.

Sixty-six years after it was chartered, nine members of the Leuign W. Osier Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8395 voted to close the post that has been operating since April 17, 1947 and merge with Soule-Shuman Memorial Post 4525 in Waldoboro.

Lewis Cameron, 43, Nobleboro, untagged lobster traps, Chap. 25, $700.