Family, friends, neighbors, town and county officials and firefighters from all over Lincoln County gathered Sunday afternoon, July 11, to pay tribute to Ron Pendleton at a retirement party at the Bristol Consolidated School.

He is not a member of the Damariscotta First Baptist Church nor even a resident of Damariscotta, but Richard Cummings went the extra mile this week to raise money for the restoration of the Church steeple.

Red’s Eats gets all the press – television and magazine features, even a recent book – but next door, down a set of granite steps, lies an equal treasure: Lear’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream.

Now that summer vacation is in full swing, parents who want to keep their children (or themselves) entertained might consider a visit to the Skidompha Second-Hand Book Shop on Elm Street in Damariscotta.

Dylan Tavares and Chandra Hall of Jefferson are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Madison Willow Tavares.

Ground-level ozone concentrations are expected to reach unhealthy levels for the Southwest Coastal region (Kittery through Boothbay Harbor) on Wednesday according to the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP).

A report last week the Landmark Steeple Trust Fund committee had secured the final $45,000 necessary to complete the restoration effort on the steeple of the First Baptist Church of Damariscotta this summer turned out to be premature.

A network of Maine individuals and businesses, with the guidance and organization of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, helped a six-year-old boy enjoy the trip of a lifetime, June 23-28.

Maine Yankee and its Community Advisory Panel on Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage and Removal welcome news that the Storage & Transport Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future has accepted the CAP’s invitation to hold a meeting in Wiscasset. The meeting is scheduled for Aug. 10 with details to be announced.

The hemlock woolly adelgid has been detected in several coastal towns in the past month, notably in South Bristol and Bristol in Lincoln County, according to Maine Forest Service spokesperson Allison Kanoti.

The Waldoboro police report the following activities from the previous weeks:

AccidentsJune 28: As she was attempting to make a left turn onto the Atlantic Highway around 2:15 p.m., Barbara Kane, 80, of Waldoboro, was struck by a 2006 Honda SUV operated by Kyle Dodge, 16, of Nobleboro, due to driver inattention/distraction. The Honda sustained $3000 damage. Kane’s 2010 Chevrolet, four door sedan sustained $10,000 damage. Kane complained of pain in the stomach/chest area. Officer Jeffery Fuller investigated the accident.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On June 22, Marlin Swartentruber, 38, of Newcastle was issued a summons for improperly parked motor vehicle in Damariscotta Mills, Nobleboro by Deputy Mark Bridgham.

Forty-two high school-aged students from Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey arrived in the Pine Tree State July 10 to spend a week doing home improvement work in the Midcoast.

Ruth Anne Bryant, the President of the Miles Memorial Hospital League, faces charges of assault and witness tampering, a Class C felony, after a June 24 incident in District Court.