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.

Starting in July and continuing through Columbus Day, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay will have a dedicated office space in the new Bosarge Family Education Center available to a different expert each week.

Kerry D. Billings, 50, Brunswick, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, transferred to jury trial.

At the town meeting polls on June 14, 902 Waldoboro voters cast ballots; residents rejected multiple department budgets, the budget for upkeep of the AD Gray building and the article establishing employee benefits.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a Boothbay man wanted for sexual assaults involving two teenaged girls. Kenneth Dobson, age 35, of Boothbay is wanted on charges of Gross Sexual Assault and Violation of Conditions of Release.

Chives is a new bistro and coffeehouse on 212 Main Street, Damariscotta, that’s now open for business.