Peapod Jewelry of Round Pond has released a new necklace design called the Two Peas in a Pod Heart. Designed by artist Ronna Lugosch, this piece is sterling silver with 18k gold wire detail. It is available with a choice of white pearls, red carnelian or green malachite. Other colors may be available by special order.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen, by a 5-0 vote, agreed to sign a letter stating their firm opposition to any alternate to the recently abandoned N8c route for a Rt. 1 bypass around Wiscasset.

All Post Offices nationwide will be open New Year’s Eve, Fri., Dec. 31, but most will have shortened retail lobby hours and close at noon. Mail delivery for Dec. 31 is not affected by the change.

Revised hours will be posted at each Post Office and commercial customers are asked to check with their Business Mail Entry Unit for Dec. 31 hours of operation.

Utilizing nearly $200,000 in Federal Highway Safety funding, 42 Maine law enforcement agencies, including the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Waldoboro Police Dept., will have additional patrols looking for impaired drivers throughout December and January.

When Somerville fire fighters arrived at their new fire station in the morning on Dec. 18, they discovered that the generator they use to power the furnace in the building had been stolen.

Since the discovery of an empty Bald Eagles nest on Davis Island in Edgecomb, and the consequent shelving of bypass route N8c, many Lincoln County residents have wondered why the nest simply can’t be moved. The explanation, according to Sarah Nystrom the US Fish & Wildlife, is complex.

At a special meeting Dec. 3, the Newcastle Planning Board granted a 30-day extension to Mattson Development to satisfy the terms of a conditional approval for the Newcastle Harbor House project.

Due to predicted inclement weather, Flying Santa’s visit to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse has been postponed until Dec. 12.

The Lincoln County Budget Advisory Committee and the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners presented their recommendations for the 2011 budget Nov. 29. The budget, as recommended, will total $10,323,452. Municipal property taxes will pay $9,001,117 of the total figure, a decrease of 0.25 percent from the 2010 budget.

A good deed in Bristol last week has left a Newcastle woman wondering whom to thank.

Joyce Dexter, 68, was one of dozens of drivers in the Midcoast who slipped, slid or crashed during the first significant snowstorm of the season Dec. 6.

There are several projects in the works to help restore alewife passage between Webber Pond and Muscongus Bay in Bremen. Successfully restoring passage to this spawning ground should be a big step in establishing a sustainable alewife run in Bremen, which recent federal law requires in order for a town to allow alewife fishing.

At their Dec. 28 meeting, the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to approve the language of moratoria on methadone clinics and medical marijuana dispensaries in Waldoboro. The board also approved a Jan. 11 special town meeting, which is required to officially enact the moratoria.

Emotions ran high Dec. 15 as a 16-member “mascot” committee debated changing Wiscasset High School’s current mascot, the Redskins.

Renys has announced plans to open a new location on Congress Avenue in Portland.