The Animal House in Damariscotta has been designated a donation center for The Lincoln County Animal Shelter. They are accepting supply and monetary donations to help the shelter with their need after recently taking in 22 dogs from Waldoboro.

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen have revoked a special amusement permit for Wiscasset racetrack owner Douglas White to host a return engagement of Oxxfest, a traveling heavy metal music festival that was slated for this summer.

At their meeting April 13, the Waldoboro Planning Board voted unanimously to approve drafts of two ordinances: one to govern methadone clinics and one to govern medical marijuana cultivation and distribution facilities.

Three months after the Newcastle Fire Company’s initial recommendation of a $300,000-plus rescue-pumper to replace two aging trucks, the Company is changing tack.

The Central Lincoln County School System (AOS 93) has appointed Steven Bailey as the successor to outgoing Supt. Robert Bouchard.

Heavy, wet snowfall and high winds produced by a hard-hitting April Fools Day nor’easter combined to produce widespread power outages in Lincoln County on Friday, according to the Central Maine Power Co. (CMP).

The Damariscotta Police Dept. has been investigating another batch of motor vehicle burglaries that occurred during the early morning hours of April 21 in the areas of Elm Street, Church Street and Chapman Street.

Edgecomb residents decided to nix plans to purchase 22-acres of land on Davis Island from the Bank of Maine during an April 4 meeting at the town hall with the Edgecomb Board of Selectmen.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On March 30, Deputy Chad Gilbert responded to a report of burglary in the Bristol area. The complainant stated that sometime between March 12 and March 29, someone(s) entered his residence and stole numerous items. There are no suspects at this time and further investigation will follow if leads develop.

On Rt. 1 in front of the town office in Waldoboro, construction work has begun on a Maine Dept. of Transportation intersection improvement project that raised concerns with several residents during public hearings on the project over the last year.

Newcastle farmer Brady Hatch recently returned from a trip to Washington D.C. where she advocated on behalf of sustainable agriculture programs. While there, Hatch, 30, met with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and an assistant for U.S. Senator Susan Collins. The trip was a proactive salvo into the fray of the national budget battle on behalf of small farmers.

After several years of struggle, the Maine legislature appears to be poised to enact a free saltwater fishing registry, said Sen. David Trahan, whose bill to create the registry will go before a joint committee on April 7.

Efforts by a group of artists, including a Whitefield woman, have culminated in the filing of a federal lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage and others in regards to the controversial removal of a mural in the State Dept. of Labor.

Note: The dates at the end of this article are correct. The print edition dates are incorrect.

Twenty-two people attended an evening code writing workshop – the second of a series of three this week – at the Damariscotta Municipal Building April 18.