Nearly a year ago, on July 20, 2010, Bristol voters authorized the purchase of a Bristol Mills property at a special town meeting. The vote was overshadowed at the time by a referendum on wolf hybrid facilities.

On the heels of US Fish and Wildlife ruling that a disputed eagle nest on Davis Island cannot be moved, Edgecomb resident Byron Johnson has drafted an alternate bypass route, which he said could shorten the plan by one half mile.

Johnson, a civil and traffic engineer, made his presentation during a meeting of the Edgecomb Bypass Taskforce July 26.

Detective Lance Mitchell and Officer Sean Kozer from the Waldoboro Police Dept. arrested Scott Elwell, 47, of South Thomaston on July 21, for attempting to pass four counterfeit $20 bills at the Rockland Savings Bank, Rt. 1 Waldoboro.

Sgt. Kathy Williams reported another busy week for the department as the summer season kicks into high gear. As reported earlier, uniformed traffic detail will begin July 10 in the downtown area of Wiscasset.

AccidentJuly 1, Officer Donald Smith investigated an accident involving Nathaniel Marseglia, 30, of Wiscasset, who was backing up onto Page Avenue when he struck a Subaru driven by Robert Pedreira, 23, of Wiscasset, resulting in minor damage to the Subaru.

In what Lincoln County EMA Director Tim Pellerin is calling a tremendous asset for the county, a brand new multi-function fire-training trailer arrived in Wiscasset July 11.

Clouds and cool temperatures didn’t stop about 400 South Bristol residents from enjoying the annual ice cream social at the Thompson Ice House July 3.

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

Alna: Dominic W. Caristo to Willard S. Morgan and Jennifer L. Barton;

Tyler Pope’s training as an artist, sculptor and smith has taken him from Newcastle to the United Kingdom, from New York City to Bristol and from New Mexico to his present home in Whitefield.

With afternoon temperatures climbing to over 90 degrees, concerned residents called Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies to check on an elderly woman living in a small cabin at the Pine Crest Motor Court in Edgecomb.

Damariscotta isn’t going to rush the selection of its next police chief.

At a special town meeting on July 5, residents of Jefferson voted not to accept a state grant to pay for installation of a recycling facility.

After 11 years on State Rt. 32 in Round Pond, Peapod Jewelry has relocated to U.S. Rt. 1 in Edgecomb.

Parts of Maine will experience unusually hot weather over the next two days. Heat and humidity will be highest on Thursday and persist through Friday in the southern and southwestern parts of the state, especially in York, Cumberland, and Oxford Counties. Nighttime temperatures will also be higher than usual.

District 20 State Senator David Trahan has announced his intentions to resign from the Senate to assume a position as the head of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.