The spring and the year’s final grade 8 concert at Great Salt Bay School begins 7 p.m., Fri., May 6.

At a special referendum on April 29, Jesse Turner won re-election to the position of Somerville Road Commissioner.

Thirty-two voters from Bremen, Damariscotta and Newcastle passed the Great Salt Bay Community School’s $4.9 million 2011-2012 budget at the Great Salt Bay Consolidated School District’s annual budget meeting May 17.

Bonnie Stone has recently joined Drum & Drum Real Estate, a leader in Midcoast Maine realty since its inception in 1990.

The Wiscasset Police Dept. report the following:

The Wiscasset Police Dept. responded to numerous calls the week of April 25-May 3 and includes property checks, juvenile problem responses, motor vehicle warnings, medical emergencies, false burglar alarm, suspicious activity, services rendered, emergency and transport duty, rendering assistance for disabled vehicles, rendering court service, and performing ongoing investigations

Emergency crews responded to a morning traffic accident May 10 on Rt. 1 in Wiscasset that sent two area men to Maine Medical Center in Portland with non-life threatening injuries.

Reports of a home burial in Coopers Mills over the weekend launched an investigation by law enforcement and the state Division of Environmental Health.

Whitefield’s snowplow contractor Steve McGee owned the hot seat Monday as several residents and selectmen aired their complaints at the board’s regular meeting. Selectman Frank Ober opened the discussion by saying, “People in town are very upset. They’re saying, ‘Fire him!'”

Justin E. Roberts, 20, of Wiscasset, Sept. 11, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, $80 restitution, 30 hours community service.

Damariscotta/NewcastleThe Twin Villages Annual Memorial Day parade will step off from Lincoln County Publishing Co. building on Mills Road in Newcastle at 11 a.m., Mon., May 30. The parade will follow the traditional route from Mills Road to Bus. Rt. 1 to the Damariscotta Church with stops for memorial ceremonies at Newcastle’s Memorial Park and on the Twin Villages bridge.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Massachusetts fugitive after an intensive manhunt in Bristol May 20.

Ruben Hernandez, 36, of Webster, Mass., was wanted on warrants from Massachusetts for Probation Violations stemming from charges of Armed Robbery, Assault and Battery, and Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon.

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.