About 13 Damariscotta residents attended the Nov. 17 meeting of the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen for a public hearing about the Bus. Rt. 1 sidewalk project.

The people in attendance were largely property owners or representatives of businesses in the affected area, which extends from the Damariscotta Region Information Bureau to the offices of Mobius Inc. at 319 Main Street.

Damariscotta Police has learned of a phone scam from a resident.

The resident received a phone call from a person posing as an employee of the United States government’s grant department.

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In 1943, Merrill Rice was a teenager living on the S Road in South Bristol and working across the Damariscotta River in East Boothbay – until he was drafted.

According to the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency, as of 7:30 a.m. the high wind and heavy rains that blew through the area during the overnight Sunday into Monday morning has left some approximately 2400 households without power.

Wiscasset Board of Selectmen has voted ‘no’ to an initial proposed agreement involving equipment, as part of the Boothbay Region YMCA winter facility-sharing plan. While not denying the partnership outright, both Selectmen Bob Blagdon and Nichols were opposed to an equipment purchase request in the proposed agreement.

Following the discovery of an undocumented eagle’s nest along the previously approved corridor for the proposed Wiscasset Bypass, the US Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) has informed the Maine Dept. of Transportation (DOT) that the proposed route is no longer acceptable.

Mark Bailey and Theresa Taylor of Dresden are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Lily Marie-Irene Bailey.

During a Wiscasset Board of Selectmen meeting Nov.16, former vice chairman of the Wiscasset school board Douglas Smith asked the board and Town Manager Laurie Smith to request a meeting with the Maine Dept. of Education (DOE) to explore ending the town’s association with RSU#12.

Police are looking for valuables that may be in Maine as a result of a theft in Massachusetts.

According to police in Wayland, Mass., rare coins and other items valued at $75,000 were stolen from a Sears Road home in that community sometime in September.

Wiscasset, led by Town Clerk Chris Wolfe, won the first annual “Fill the Food Pantry” challenge, the brainchild of Damariscotta Town Clerk Cheryl Pinkham.

When a fire sparked behind the kitchen fireplace in a Whitefield home, fire crews from the surrounding towns responded quickly and contained the damage to a small patch of the exterior at the rear of the house. No one was injured.

Vicky Soikum of Augusta has announced the opening of her new Thai restaurant M Thai on Rt. 27 in Wiscasset. The 47-year-old native of Northern Thailand is a familiar face at New England fairs and festivals where she has been selling her authentic Thai creations for the greater part of 10 years.

A veteran Maine State Trooper and Nobleboro resident was arrested on Nov. 24 on two felony charges: tampering with a witness and unlawful sexual contact with a child.