The Wiscasset Fire Department’s Oct. 12 open house featured safety demonstrations and provided the public with a chance to personally inspect the collection of fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars parked outside Wiscasset’s Municipal Building for the occasion.

A week of Indian summer, along with new and improved events contributed to a successful fifth year for the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to identify a subject who cashed a check for $2700 at the First Bank in Damariscotta Sept. 22.

Months of investigation by a Maine police taskforce resulted in two arrests on Sept. 28 in Plaistow, N.H., for alleged involvement in an interstate burglary spree beginning in Waldoboro in May.

Lincoln County TRIAD will be holding their 11th annual Elder Appreciation Day on Sat., Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. at the Boothbay Region Elementary School on Rt. 27, Boothbay Harbor. Admission is free.

Meeting Oct. 24, the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen agreed to settle a nearly year old lawsuit filed against the town regarding the operation of a gravel pit on Mount Hunger Road.

Mexicali Blues owner Pete Erskine plans to replace the retail chain’s Newcastle home with a “better performing, better looking, better overall store more reflective of who Mexicali Blues is.”

Maine voters can expect to see marriage on the November 2012 state ballot.

Lincoln Academy senior Malcolm Oliver won the State Class B Individual golf championship at Natanis in Vassalboro under windy conditions on Saturday.

It has been over 65 years since the Holocaust ended through Allied force of arms, but Ernest “Ernie” Weiss still finds a captive audience whenever he tells the story of his family’s escape from Nazi Europe.

On Sept. 30, Nobleboro Central School students celebrated the completion of their new playground with a Ribbon Cutting ceremony.

Oliver shot a 73 on Saturday at Natanis to win the State Class B golf championship.

A handful of activists who want to remove fluoride from the public water supply brought their case to the Damariscotta and Newcastle Boards of Selectmen Oct. 19 and 24.

Simpson’s Oceanfront Seafood owner Scott Simpson is selling his shop after 25 years in business.