Gary “Lee” Snyder of Bowdoin and Carol Cromwell of Wiscasset are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Snyder to Nathaniel Johnston, son of Peter and Christine Johnston of Woolwich.

The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen will meet in joint session with the Damariscotta Planning Board Mon., Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Damariscotta Municipal Building on School Street in Damariscotta, to discuss a request from Piper Village Development to rezone several properties in the rural zone east of Bus. Rt. 1.

U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor a $603,631 grant to conduct biological oceanography research, specifically in the area of iron oxidizing bacteria.

A Topsham woman appeared in court in Portland on Dec. 20 on charges that she stole tens of thousands of dollars in veteran’s benefits from her brother-in-law’s account.

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

Alna: Julie Taylor to William Dighton;

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputies recently assisted Maine Drug Enforcement Agents in an investigation that resulted in the seizure of 2.5 pounds of bath salts in the past week from Waterville and Thomaston.

Harland McLain of Boothbay Harbor and Jodi Brewer McLain of Boothbay Harbor were granted a divorce on Nov. 30. They were married in Boothbay Harbor on June 23, 2007.

The Lincoln County Commissioners tabled a request from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy for a two-year teaching contract with Sgt. Jason Nein of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

At their Dec. 1 meeting, the RSU/MSAD 40 School Board set a 2 percent cap limiting a potential increase in next year’s budget.

Firefighters from five area towns responded to a structure fire on Rt. 17, also known as Rockland Road, in Whitefield earlier Wednesday evening.

Justin D. Bailey, 36, Damariscotta, violating municipal shellfish ordinance, $300.

The Waldoboro Police report the following activities from the previous week:

AccidentNov. 28, On the Manktown Road around 4:31 p.m. Savannah Chamberlain, 18, of Waldoboro was backing a 1997 Chevrolet pickup truck out of a parking space when she collided with a legally parked 1995 Saab passenger car, formerly operated by Danielle Hunt, 16, of Waldoboro. Officer William Shuman investigated.

Three men were injured during a head-on collision on Rt. 1 in Edgecomb, Dec. 9. The accident occurred about a quarter mile south of the intersection of Routes 1 and 27.

There is a possibility Lincoln County’s 2012 budget may be smaller than the previous year.