Edgecomb residents decided to nix plans to purchase 22-acres of land on Davis Island from the Bank of Maine during an April 4 meeting at the town hall with the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On March 30, Deputy Chad Gilbert responded to a report of burglary in the Bristol area. The complainant stated that sometime between March 12 and March 29, someone(s) entered his residence and stole numerous items. There are no suspects at this time and further investigation will follow if leads develop.

On Rt. 1 in front of the town office in Waldoboro, construction work has begun on a Maine Dept. of Transportation intersection improvement project that raised concerns with several residents during public hearings on the project over the last year.

Newcastle farmer Brady Hatch recently returned from a trip to Washington D.C. where she advocated on behalf of sustainable agriculture programs. While there, Hatch, 30, met with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and an assistant for U.S. Senator Susan Collins. The trip was a proactive salvo into the fray of the national budget battle on behalf of small farmers.

After several years of struggle, the Maine legislature appears to be poised to enact a free saltwater fishing registry, said Sen. David Trahan, whose bill to create the registry will go before a joint committee on April 7.

Efforts by a group of artists, including a Whitefield woman, have culminated in the filing of a federal lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage and others in regards to the controversial removal of a mural in the State Dept. of Labor.

Note: The dates at the end of this article are correct. The print edition dates are incorrect.

Twenty-two people attended an evening code writing workshop – the second of a series of three this week – at the Damariscotta Municipal Building April 18.

The Central Lincoln County School System (AOS #93) has selected Steven Bailey as the successor to outgoing Supt. Robert Bouchard.

After exactly three years on the job, Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Kimberley White-Kaiser will become the new EMA Director for York County.

In a two-page letter to Wiscasset Selectman Ed Polewarczyk, Wiscasset resident Ginger Wehrle has requested that an Internet link from the town’s website to the Wiscasset Educational Research Panel (WERP) be removed.

At a workshop on April 7, the legislature’s Marine Resources Committee tabled two bills related to the creation of a registry of recreational saltwater fishermen. The committee will likely readdress the bills sometime in the next month.

At their meeting on April 5, the Somerville Board of Selectmen appointed Ralph Turner to act as road commissioner until the election later this month.

Heavy, wet snowfall and high winds produced by a hard-hitting April Fools Day nor’easter combined to produce widespread power outages in Lincoln County on Friday, according to the Central Maine Power Co. (CMP).

Saying it was “best for the town,” Lt. John Allen of the Wiscasset Police Dept. is hanging up his badge after nearly 25 years of service.