Calling it an important issue for the town, Wiscasset Town Manager Laurie Smith is urging residents to vote Tues., Dec. 7 to decide the fate of the municipal planning budget.

In the early 1970s, when Donald Bisset was appointed the state’s first Fire Marshal, he was presented with a daunting challenge: build an office that would create rules and regulations and work for the safety of a million, strongly independent people.

Edgecomb resident Raymond Shadis, a leading environmentalist and anti-nuclear activist, earned recognition from the National Environmental Hall of Fame.

The name is locally recognizable: She’s Crissy DeOnis, founder of Paco’s Taco’s and The Uptown Café, and she is back. Getting to Crissy’s Breakfast and Coffee Bar at the top of the hill on Main Street, Damariscotta is truly worth the walk.

Robert M. Tibbetts and Jennifer M. Libby of Damariscotta are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Samuel Robert Mahlon Tibbetts.

A late night fire on Dec. 27 caused “extensive” damage to Huber’s Market in Wiscasset according to storeowner Kyle Yacoben.

Four years ago, David Rice, a South Bristol lobsterman, applied for a Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) permit to build a commercial pier on Clark’s Cove. After two years and a string of appeals from neighbors, Rice secured the permit with an unusual condition – he cannot store lobster traps on the pier.

Governor John E. Baldacci reminded the public that many Maine State government offices are closed on Thurs., Dec. 23, as a cost saving initiative for the Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Biennial State Budget.

The attorneys in the case of former Great Salt Bay Community School fifth grade teacher Peter Simonds made their closing arguments in a motion hearing Dec. 3.

Mid Coast Inventory Services is a member of the National Association of Home Inventory Professionals.

Edward H. Benoit, 23, Boothbay Harbor, attaching false plates, dismissed.

In an emotional and tense meeting at the Edgecomb Eddy School Dec. 15, Members of the Midcoast Bypass Taskforce voted to continue working with the Maine Dept. of Transportation to find a practical plan for a Wiscasset bypass.

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

Boothbay: Norma B. Ludwig to Gail L. Reynolds and Stephen Reynolds;

Mary Ginnaty and Jamie Young of South Bristol are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Cedric Allen Young.