Owen Abraham Allen was born May 31 to Natalie and Patrick Allen at their home in Wiscasset.

After nearly 25 years on the job, Lt. John Allen, 50, of the Wiscasset Police Dept., can’t remember his first arrest but he does recall making a name for himself early on.

Longtime Waldoboro attorney Daniel C. Purdy received a public reprimand from the Board of Overseers of the Maine Bar May 24.

The Somerville Fire Department received an automated external defibrillator (AED) donated by Central Maine Power.

Sara Burns, President of CMP, visited the Somerville Fire Station on June 13 to deliver the AED. CMP donated four defibrillators to rural fire departments chosen randomly from throughout their territory.

The Waldoboro special town meeting to address budget items voted down at town meeting has been moved to Sat., July 9, at 9 a.m. in the gymnasium at Medomak Valley High School on Manktown Road.

The decision by the Westport Island Board of Selectmen to award the towns snow removal contract to G & D Cromwell has left Evan Holbrook of Woolwich-based Holbrook Excavating frustrated.

On June 17, the Phillips farm property in Damariscotta, once slated for big box development, was sold to The Maine Farmland Trust, which will place the land under a permanent agricultural conservation easement, and resell it as working farmland.

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

Boothbay: Eugene Roberts to Jessica Roberts Johnson; Bradley David Chapman to Bradley David Chapman; Jean Daniel A. Pluess and Susan A. Pluess to Jean Daniel A. Pluess and Susan A. Pluess; Nancy J. Long to Ashleeann Lowery and Daniel R. Lowery;

Erica Qualey and Jason Bigonia of Newcastle are elated to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Helena Bee Qualey Bigonia.

A May 26 workshop on the possibility of public pre-K education in Bristol brought together education experts, municipal and district officials, parents, teachers and community leaders for the first significant public exchange on the topic.

Mainely Sewing, a popular Nobleboro based business, has opened a second store on Water Street in Wiscasset next to Reds Eats.

Coastal Kids Preschool broke ground on June 13 on an expansion of their Damariscotta facilities.

A Jefferson man involved in a forgery ring pleaded guilty to several forgery and theft charges in Lincoln County Superior Court June 30.

Steve Drake isn’t ready for retirement. The former Damariscotta police chief, in a June 10 interview, said he has “too much to pass on” to consider hanging it up just yet.