Many professionals, especially people who excel in their field, stick around too long -Central Lincoln County School System Supt. Robert Bouchard, who clocked in for the last time June 24, is an example of the opposite – a leader departing at the peak of his career.

School officials awarded a roofing project at Nobleboro Central School to Williams Roofing out of Brewer for $105,629 on June 21.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Kenyon was been placed on paid administrative leave after being issued a summons on charges of violating condition of release.

One of the quiet pillars of the community passed away suddenly at his home in Nobleboro Monday night, due to natural causes.

Some Whitefield men who served in the Civil War liked the southern climate so well they never returned. Many others died of disease or fell in battle. Some deserted.

Fans of Thai food have reason to celebrate as crews from new restaurant Best Thai put the finishing touches on their location at 74 Main Street in Damariscotta.

Waldoboro voters elected several town officials at the polls on June 14. In several elections, the candidates from the Concerned Citizens of Waldoboro (C-COW) ousted incumbents. As of press time, town officials were still double-checking the vote count for these races, Town Clerk Linda Perry said.

Four veteran educators with over 100 years of combined service to local schools will retire from Great Salt Bay Community School at the end of the academic year.

In a brief meeting of the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen May 16, the Board updated the town on the recent procurement of Wiscasset Bypass information from the state by the Edgecomb Bypass committee.

Fourteen months after his March 18, 2010 arrest, Peter Simonds began a six-month sentence at Two Bridges Regional Jail May 23.

A suspect is in custody after an hour-long manhunt closed a section of Rt. 130 and forced officials to place the Bristol Consolidated School in a temporary lockdown May 20.

The Lincoln County Commissioners met in an emergency session May 9 to discuss lingering legislative concerns over Two Bridges Jail. The meeting, which included comments from Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett, featured discussion of a May 6 public hearing in Augusta on LD 1419, “An Act To Improve the Coordination of State and County Correctional Services.”

Adam Sprague and Jessica MacPhee of Damariscotta are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Neil Alan Sprague.

Construction is underway on a 190-foot cell tower in Walpole.

Builders are at work on the steel base of the structure, Paul Kelsey, the property owner, said May 12.