Accepting the low bid of $567,753, the town of Edgecomb has awarded the contract for construction of the new fire station to the Rockport-based Penobscot Company.

Voters said ‘yes’ to every item on the Jefferson town warrant at this year’s town meeting on March 29. Most articles passed by a relatively wide margin.

The vote will create a $735,660 town budget, not including education, which will be handled separately later this spring.

Although the Maine Dept. of Transportation announced that it will only provide some of the Gateway 1 startup funding Waldoboro was slated to receive, the town will continue work on their Downtown Master Plan, which was to be funded in large part with Gateway 1 funds.

The details of an amendment to L.D. 11, the wolf hybrid bill, are becoming clear as legislation nears a vote before the Maine Senate.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen unanimously voted March 14 to direct Newcastle Fire Chief Clayton Huntley to halt the ongoing bidding process for a new fire truck.

Lincoln Academy’ math team won the Central Maine Math League to qualify for New Englands, to be held in Canton, Ma.

Dorothy M. Peters of Newcastle was granted a divorce from Stephen F. Peters of Edgecomb on Feb. 7. They were married in Central Islip, N.Y. on Nov. 15, 1986. Shared parental rights of one minor child.

The shrimp season in Maine, cut short by a Feb. 18 ruling citing concerns about “overharvest,” officially came to an end Feb. 28.

Coastal Enterprises Inc., through its subsidiary CEI Capital Management LLC, was among the top four New Markets Tax Credit recipients chosen to receive the highest allocations in the U.S.

Two Jefferson Village School Odyssey of the Mind teams qualified for the world finals this year. JVS teams have qualified for the World Finals three out of the last four years.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Fri., April 1 in regard to a late season nor’easter expected to chug up the coast with rainfall and the possibility snow.

The Newcastle Fire Company has received a $25,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation.

Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office (LCSO) have arrested Colton Thayer, 20 of Wiscasset, in connection with a 2008 arson involving a pickup belonging to recently retired Wiscasset Police Officer Alfred “Willy” Simmons.

Employees of the Waldoboro Police Department, Public Works Department and Transfer Station voted earlier this month to unionize.