In what Lincoln County EMA Director Tim Pellerin is calling a tremendous asset for the county, a brand new multi-function fire-training trailer arrived in Wiscasset July 11.

Clouds and cool temperatures didn’t stop about 400 South Bristol residents from enjoying the annual ice cream social at the Thompson Ice House July 3.

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

Alna: Dominic W. Caristo to Willard S. Morgan and Jennifer L. Barton;

Tyler Pope’s training as an artist, sculptor and smith has taken him from Newcastle to the United Kingdom, from New York City to Bristol and from New Mexico to his present home in Whitefield.

With afternoon temperatures climbing to over 90 degrees, concerned residents called Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies to check on an elderly woman living in a small cabin at the Pine Crest Motor Court in Edgecomb.

Damariscotta isn’t going to rush the selection of its next police chief.

At a special town meeting on July 5, residents of Jefferson voted not to accept a state grant to pay for installation of a recycling facility.

After 11 years on State Rt. 32 in Round Pond, Peapod Jewelry has relocated to U.S. Rt. 1 in Edgecomb.

Parts of Maine will experience unusually hot weather over the next two days. Heat and humidity will be highest on Thursday and persist through Friday in the southern and southwestern parts of the state, especially in York, Cumberland, and Oxford Counties. Nighttime temperatures will also be higher than usual.

District 20 State Senator David Trahan has announced his intentions to resign from the Senate to assume a position as the head of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.

Nancy Hanna of Round Pond was hired recently to serve as the new Bremen Town Clerk.

At the town meeting polls on June 14, Waldoboro residents voted down eight budget items. To create budgets for those departments, the town will meet at an open special town meeting on Sat., July 9, at 9 a.m. in the Medomak Valley High School gymnasium.

Waldoboro Police arrested a South Thomaston man after they say he tried to pass four counterfeit $20 bills at Rockland Savings Bank in Waldoboro.

Sen. David Trahan may leave his senate seat to become Executive Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM).

News of the possible move broke July 15, but Trahan said nothing is set in stone at this point.