In his first public comments on the recently shelved Wiscasset bypass, Gov. Paul LePage said he “absolutely” supports removing an eagle’s nest that derailed the N8c route for the project. The sharply worded response came during a May 20 town hall style meeting with Lincoln County residents as part of the LePage administrations “Capitol For A Day” initiative.

Peter Simonds will report Mon., May 23, for six months of incarceration.

A bill intended to move medical marijuana laws closer to the citizens’ initiative passed last fall received unanimous support from the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on May 10.

On April 28, the RSU/MSAD 40 School Board narrowly approved a $21,489,112 budget to send to voters.

Four veteran educators with over 100 years of combined service to local schools will retire from Great Salt Bay Community School at the end of the academic year.

In a brief meeting of the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen May 16, the Board updated the town on the recent procurement of Wiscasset Bypass information from the state by the Edgecomb Bypass committee.

Fourteen months after his March 18, 2010 arrest, Peter Simonds began a six-month sentence at Two Bridges Regional Jail May 23.

A suspect is in custody after an hour-long manhunt closed a section of Rt. 130 and forced officials to place the Bristol Consolidated School in a temporary lockdown May 20.

The Lincoln County Commissioners met in an emergency session May 9 to discuss lingering legislative concerns over Two Bridges Jail. The meeting, which included comments from Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett, featured discussion of a May 6 public hearing in Augusta on LD 1419, “An Act To Improve the Coordination of State and County Correctional Services.”

Adam Sprague and Jessica MacPhee of Damariscotta are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Neil Alan Sprague.

Construction is underway on a 190-foot cell tower in Walpole.

Builders are at work on the steel base of the structure, Paul Kelsey, the property owner, said May 12.

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

Alna: Sally E. Field to Howard S. Field; Frederick F. Post and Lina A. Post to Edwin F. J. Thelander and Liliana Thelander; Richard A. Dalton Jr. and Cynthia M. Dalton to Kenneth R. Boudin Jr.;

Edgecomb residents overwhelming approved a 180-day moratorium on new construction for Davis Island during their Annual Town Meeting at the Edgecomb Eddy School May 21.

Wiscasset High School Principal Matt Carlson unveiled a potential Wolverine themed logo for the schools athletic teams at a regular meeting of the RSU 12 Board of Directors May 12.