State Trooper Gregory Vrooman, 45, of Nobleboro, indicted on charges of unlawful sexual contact, unlawful sexual touching, assault and tampering with a witness, has filed for a change of venue.

The Kentucky Derby, the longest continually run sporting event in the US, is known as the most exciting two minutes in sports, but the preparation for those two minutes takes months of work by hundreds of people. At the helm of all that planning is the Churchill Downs’ Board of Directors.

A total of 17 voters – including nine town and school officials and members of the Jefferson Village School Committee – turned out for a special town meeting to approve the JVS budget on May 16.

A sentencing hearing in the Peter Simonds case has been pushed back to Fri., May 20 at 2 p.m.

In his first public comments on the recently shelved Wiscasset bypass, Gov. Paul LePage said he “absolutely” supports removing an eagle’s nest that derailed the N8c route for the project. The sharply worded response came during a May 20 town hall style meeting with Lincoln County residents as part of the LePage administrations “Capitol For A Day” initiative.

Peter Simonds will report Mon., May 23, for six months of incarceration.

A bill intended to move medical marijuana laws closer to the citizens’ initiative passed last fall received unanimous support from the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on May 10.

On April 28, the RSU/MSAD 40 School Board narrowly approved a $21,489,112 budget to send to voters.

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.