Wiscasset High School Principal Matt Carlson has resigned his post after just one year to become the principal of Georgetown Central School.

Jefferson Community Day, organized by the Town Land Planning Committee, will be held Sat., Aug. 20, on the lawn outside the town office on Washington Street.

The employees of two Rt. 1 Newcastle businesses are perplexed after a mysterious car theft and subsequent collision the morning of July 19.

Beth Hancock and Daniel Rogers of Boothbay are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Davin Thomas Rogers.

A Jefferson man involved in a forgery ring pleaded guilty to several forgery and theft charges in Lincoln County Superior Court on June 30.

Stetson and Watson will begin work replacing the bridge that carries Goose Hill Road over Davis Stream in Jefferson, July 14.

The sentencing of a former Waldoboro branch manager for Camden National Bank began June 23 in US District Court in Portland. The hearing was continued until June 28.

A Newcastle resident and former municipal official recently became the acting commissioner of the Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP).

The town of Jefferson will hold a special town meeting on July 5 at 6 p.m. at the town office to vote on the acceptance of a grant for the proposed recycling drop-off facility.

A bill amending Maine’s medical marijuana laws has passed both branches of the legislature.

Owen Abraham Allen was born May 31 to Natalie and Patrick Allen at their home in Wiscasset.

After nearly 25 years on the job, Lt. John Allen, 50, of the Wiscasset Police Dept., can’t remember his first arrest but he does recall making a name for himself early on.

Longtime Waldoboro attorney Daniel C. Purdy received a public reprimand from the Board of Overseers of the Maine Bar May 24.

The Somerville Fire Department received an automated external defibrillator (AED) donated by Central Maine Power.

Sara Burns, President of CMP, visited the Somerville Fire Station on June 13 to deliver the AED. CMP donated four defibrillators to rural fire departments chosen randomly from throughout their territory.