The drawbridge connecting Richmond and Dresden on Rt. 197 was closed to vehicle traffic while Dept. of Transportation employees undertook emergency repairs.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

Recent incidentsOn June 26, Dep. Brian Collamore received a complaint of a criminal mischief on Indian Road in Dresden, in the destroying of wooden posts under mailboxes. The incident is under investigation.

“Improper disposal of smoking material” has been the cause of three fires in Damariscotta in little more than a week, Fire Chief Neil Genthner said.

Residents of Bremen, and others visiting the town, will have an opportunity to visit the old Bremen Town House on Sun., Aug. 5, 1-4 p.m. when the Town House Committee hosts its biggest fundraising event of the year.

The South Bristol lobsterman who threatened a fellow lobsterman with a shotgun in a trap-cutting dispute pleaded guilty to Class C reckless conduct June 29.

Lincoln Academy Head of School Jay Pinkerton will serve one more academic year in the position before he resigns, he said July 9.

Hannaford Supermarkets customers should not eat a type of cantaloupe formerly available at the chain’s stores.

Bristol Fire and Rescue and Maine Marine Patrol rescued three people from a 23-foot pleasure boat when it ran aground on a ledge near John’s Island the afternoon of July 22.

A Department of Transportation crew re-striped the busy and sometimes dangerous intersection of Academy Hill Road, Main Street and Mills Road in Newcastle July 19.

Bremen Town Clerk Joanne McGregor said July 17, that the town’s new website will continue to improve as she and other town officials learn how to add information.

Justice Jeffrey Hjelm rejected a plea agreement June 29 in the case of a 25-year-old Boothbay Harbor man who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend Feb. 24.

The non-profit organization Youth Promise has closed its Newcastle office and moved into a vacant mother-in-law apartment in the Damariscotta home of executive director Mary Trescot.

An analysis of Cynthia Dill, Maine’s Democratic candidate for Olympia Snowe’s soon-to-be vacant U.S. Senate seat, claims that she “has a record of … creating quality jobs” during her six years in the state legislature.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen authorized a 10-ton load limit for Lynch Road after receiving a complaint from a resident about increasing truck traffic.