Following a recent public hearing on proposed ordinances governing methadone clinics and medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities, the Waldoboro Planning Board made minor changes to their draft ordinances.

Wiscasset voters approved a $350,000 capital improvement project to replace its aging commercial fish pier during their referendum style Annual Town Meeting June 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.

The Waldoboro special town meeting to address budget items voted down at town meeting has been moved to Sat., July 9, at 9 a.m. in the gymnasium at Medomak Valley High School on Manktown Road.

The decision by the Westport Island Board of Selectmen to award the towns snow removal contract to G & D Cromwell has left Evan Holbrook of Woolwich-based Holbrook Excavating frustrated.

On June 17, the Phillips farm property in Damariscotta, once slated for big box development, was sold to The Maine Farmland Trust, which will place the land under a permanent agricultural conservation easement, and resell it as working farmland.

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

Boothbay: Eugene Roberts to Jessica Roberts Johnson; Bradley David Chapman to Bradley David Chapman; Jean Daniel A. Pluess and Susan A. Pluess to Jean Daniel A. Pluess and Susan A. Pluess; Nancy J. Long to Ashleeann Lowery and Daniel R. Lowery;