The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a High Wind Warning for Lincoln County in regard to Hurricane Sandy, upgrading the alert status from a High Wind Watch. Easterly winds with a sustained velocity of 30 to 40 mph and gusts to 60 mph are presently forecast for Lincoln County, with the strongest winds expected Monday afternoon and into the night, according to the NWS.

A motor vehicle went off the Rt. 1 in the vicinity of Moose Crossing Garden Center in Waldoboro and snapped a utility pole in two before the vehicle burst into flames around 2:30 this afternoon.

A four-car collision briefly closed the Davey Bridge between Edgecomb and Wiscasset beginning around 5:42 p.m., Monday.

The Dresden Fire Department’s open house on Oct. 3 had at least a hundred people attend, said Chief Gerald Lilly.

The Bristol School Committee awarded the bid to remove and replace the overboard discharge system at Bristol Consolidated School to Hanley Construction Inc. Oct. 3.

Emily L. Allen-Perry, 23, of Jefferson and John W. Grotton, 26, of Augusta, pleaded guilty to three burglaries Oct. 1 in Lincoln County Superior Court.

Lena Irene Kingston of Bath was granted a divorce from Sean R.V. Kingston of Wiscasset on Aug. 28. They were married in Dresden on Aug. 28, 2000.

Crews from Central Maine Power (CMP) continue to repair power lines damaged by Hurricane Sandy in an effort to restore power to the 3,855 Lincoln County households still suffering from power outages.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a High Wind Watch for Lincoln County in regard to Hurricane Sandy, which is forecast to come ashore near Ocean City, New Jersey Monday evening, according to the NWS. Outer bands of high winds are forecast to extend well north of the storm center, bringing gusts reaching 60 mph to Lincoln County from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, according to the NWS.

A Newcastle man with multiple sclerosis has been missing since Wednesday and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to help find him.

Two men, arrested March 12 on charges that they risked serious bodily injury to three Nobleboro residents by firing a weapon at the house they were in, have reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

The dining room was full and customers waiting for food-to-go crowded the lobby on the opening night of Chen’s Village Chinese restaurant Oct. 9 in Waldoboro.

The new restaurant, located at Rt. 1 and Rt. 220, offers a full dinner menu and an all-you-eat lunch buffet seven-days a week.

Regional School Unit 40 Business and Facilities Manager for Scott Wyman is leaving his position for another job closer to home.

The superintendent of schools for MSAD/ RSU 40 said a document apparently copied in large part from that of another school district was only the first step in a long process.