Newcastle officials fined two landowners and a landscaper a total of $3500 Monday for cutting brush on the shore of the inlet running from Damariscotta Lake to the Damariscotta Mills.

Arlene Cole is not one to brag, or give unsolicited advice, but when you have been married for 60 years to the same man, she admits she does know a bit about marriage and, more importantly, how to make it work.

A three-vehicle collision in Edgecomb Sunday morning closed Rt. 1 for more than an hour while emergency responders cleared the scene.

In a close race in Dresden, voters chose challenger John Rzasa over incumbent John Ottum as the town’s First Selectman, 281-273.

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will permit moose hunting in much of Lincoln County during the 2011 deer hunting season.

At a public hearing at the Jefferson Village School May 27, the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection said they plan to use herbicide to control hydrilla in Damariscotta Lake.

Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office have arrested and charged the person they allege was driving one of the two cars that struck Loren St. Cyr in September 2008.

When renowned Maine humorist Tim Sample was growing up in Boothbay Harbor, the Knights of Pythias owned what’s now the Boothbay Opera House, and it was host to the occasional blackface minstrel show.

“People used to roller-skate where the seats are now,” Sample said. “Everything’s changed.”

Wiscasset Police Department report the following:

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen voted Monday to lower the mil rate for the town’s property tax payers.

In an effort to prevent tax increases, the RSU/MSAD 40 School Board and district voters approved a 2011/12 school budget that includes the elimination of several teaching and administrative positions.

Marine virologist Dr. Willie Wilson has been selected as the new director of Bigelow Laboratory’s Provasoli-Guillard National Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP).

Timothy and Christine Meter of Warren are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl, Nataleigh Elizabeth Meyer.

The Lincoln County News popular West Warren correspondent Marilyn Beane is currently under the weather. After visiting to Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta for a few days last week, Marilyn was transferred to Windward Acres in Camden to begin rehabilitation.