Damariscotta Town Manager Matt Lutkus has asked Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett to submit a proposal for his office to provide police services in Damariscotta.

Damariscotta Town Manager Matt Lutkus has asked Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett to submit a proposal for his office to provide police services in Damariscotta.

Jamie Schleicher and his wife Sara are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Benjamin Miles Schleicher.

American Legion Auxiliary members in Maine elected South Bristol resident Mary Jane McLoon state president at their annual conference June 16 in Bangor.

Westport Island selectmen took care of the official business of appointing an Regional School Unit 12 withdrawal committee at their regularly scheduled meeting June 23 at the town office.

A modest audience listened to members of the Lincoln County Abuse Task Force June 14, during a panel discussion on elder abuse, focusing particularly on financial fraud and predators, held at the Lincoln Home in Newcastle.

Waldoboro selectmen have asked Town Manager John Spear to work with Central Lincoln County YMCA Executive director Craig Wilson to craft a transfer agreement that would, if voters approve its provisions, transfer ownership of the A.D. Gray School building and surrounding land to the YMCA.

A 22-year-old Waldoboro woman was arrested in Rockland June 9 after the vehicle she was allegedly operating struck a State Trooper’s patrol car around 1:30 a.m.

The Bristol Board of Selectmen, at its May 30 meeting, set the 2012 mil rate at $7.60.

Friends and family crowded into the Soule-Shuman VFW Post in Waldoboro June 24, as the Lincoln County Quilters honored local veterans with their 2012 Quilts of Valor presentation.

Nobleboro taxpayers will see a drop in the annual property tax bills they receive this month, after selectmen set the tax rate at $9.80 per thousand dollars of valuation. That is a drop of slightly less than 3 percent.

When the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) held a telephone conference last February, to discuss updated landings data for the 2012 shrimp season, they had bad news for harvesters, especially those who catch shrimp by means of traps, rather than trawls.

Wiscasset voters were mostly in a giving mood, passing all but three articles on the town’s 61-article annual town meeting warrant June 12.

Governor Paul LePage has signed a proclamation declaring June 24-June 27 to be Windjammer Days Festival Week in honor of the 50th Annual Windjammer Days Festival, which will be held in Boothbay Harbor that week.