Farrin Properties welcomes new agent Bill Crocker. He joined Farrin Properties in February and is now available to market the sale of property, or assist in finding the perfect home, land or business.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

Feb. 26, Lysette V. Murray, 35, of South Bristol was issued a summons for Improper Pass and a warning for failing to stop for a police officer, on Bristol Road, Bristol, by Deputy Brian Collamore.

The Newcastle Fire Co. plan to replace two aging trucks with a new rescue pumper remains, for the time being, a point of contention between the fire company and town officials.

Le Garage restaurant in Wiscasset has recently hired its first executive chef in nearly five years.

Two Kennebec County men face a long list of burglary and theft charges spanning nearly three years and largely relating to incidents in seven Lincoln County towns.

More than 60 people attended the annual meeting of Rising Tide Community Market, March 6 in Lincoln Academy’s Dining Commons, during which members nominated three new board members, received an update on the store’s first year in its new location, and discussed the possible purchase of a 75-acre parcel of land once sought by Walmart.

Chester Rice won his fifth consecutive term on the South Bristol Board of Selectmen tonight, defeating challenger and former long-time Selectman Don Stanley, a write-in candidate, 108-66.

Former New Harbor resident Joshua Farrar and his wife Brittany, of Aviano AB, Italy, are proud to announce the birth of their baby boy Grayson Kole Farrar.

The Waldoboro Police report the following activities from the previous week:

Arrests/SummonsesFeb. 23, Officer Thomas Bartunek summonsed Corey Prock II, 18, of Nobleboro for uninsured motor vehicle.

A 64-year-old Newcastle man survived a fatal head on traffic collision that closed a section of Rt. 1 in Warren for almost four hours March 29, according to the Knox County Sheriffs Office.

Many warrant articles at Whitefield’s town meeting Saturday provoked debate, but it was winter road maintenance that heated up the room of approximately 115 voters.

Whitefield selectmen may have been clueless about a fire department compliance manual containing rules and policies (LCN 3-17-11), but Jim Brann, who was fire chief until last July, said this week he hadn’t forgotten. He has a copy but the selectmen “never had one,” he said.

Fifty-one firefighters from nine towns put out a March 11 fire at a Round Pond house after six hours of steady labor.

The house suffered extensive damage, but the homeowner’s insurance provider will ultimately determine whether it is a total loss, Bristol Fire Chief Paul Leeman said.

Justice Andrew Horton ruled on a defense motion to sever in the case of former Great Salt Bay Community School teacher Peter Simonds March 8 in Lincoln County Superior Court.