Brian Kingston, a U.S. Navy veteran and former Commander of Wells-Hussey American Legion Post #42 in Damariscotta, recalls his military service with fondness.

Firefighters from at least six area towns battled a structure fire in Round Pond March 11.

Former Wiscasset resident Nathaniel Shippee and his wife Nicole of Stow, Mass. are proud to announce the birth of their baby boy Jack Emerson Shippee.

As state employees and teachers head into a second day of fighting the governor’s proposal to take almost 10 percent out of their paychecks to cover their pensions and pension debt, about 1200 state employees known as “confidentials” have no such worry.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen discussed a “tentative” schedule for Newcastle’s annual election and town meeting at its Feb. 28 meeting.

Every article on the Bremen town warrant passed with almost no discussion at an Annual Town Meeting that lasted just under an hour on March 26 at the Bremen Town Office.

Kenneth Neild Jr., 18, Waldoboro, falsifying physical evidence on July 10 in Rockland, 48 hours in jail; OUI, four days in jail, 90-day license suspension, $600; operating while license suspended or revoked, $500.

Richard and Sandra Francis of Damariscotta are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Samantha Pohl Francis.

Voters at Bristol’s Annual Town Meeting March 15 rejected proposals to add a second full-time employee and purchase a $21,000 excavator for the town’s highway department.

After postponing their regular meeting March 10 due to expected inclement weather, the RSU #12 Board will next meet on March 17 at the Whitefield School.

Allen and Cheryl Tomasello of Bremen are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Jacob Marshall.

Until last July, an education at an independent high school in Rockland was mainly available to students whose families could afford the tuition.

A 21-year-old Topsham man was found hanging by a bed sheet inside his cell at Two Bridges Jail in Wiscasset Feb. 28 in what the State Medical Examiner’s Office has determined to be an apparent suicide.

The condition of Somerville’s roads and what will be done about them in the future dominated the conversation at this year’s Annual Town Meeting in Somerville on March 26.