The Damariscotta Police Department is participating in the Click It or Ticket enforcement program again this year. There will be increased patrols for operating under the influence and speeding along with the seatbelt violations.

Residents of Wiscasset and Edgecomb expressed confusion, alarm and indignation, at a public meeting at the Wiscasset Middle School June 22 regarding the recent selection of N8c as the likely route for a Rt. 1 bypass around Wiscasset.

The Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Invasive Species Program will have Damariscotta Lake’s .3-acre lagoon between Cranberry Point and Bill Judd’s camp treated with the herbicide fluridone (trade name: Sonar) in order to control the hydrilla infestation found last autumn.

Adam and Susan Rice of Walpole are proud to announce the birth of their baby girl Helen Marie.

Greely defeated Lincoln Academy softball 4-1 in Cumberland on June 11 in a West Class B quarter-final match-up. The Lady Eagles finish the season with a 13-4 record

Big News.

Bruce the Barber, you know, the guy operating out of the shack in Damariscotta’s back parking lot, the guy with the low prices and wry grin, has gone high hat.

Four candidates are on the ballot this year for one seat on the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen. Whichever candidate wins the one-year term will be filling the seat vacated by John Blamey earlier this year.

The Community Advisory Panel (CAP) on Maine Yankee convened for their annual meeting in the Chapman Room on the Chewonki Foundation campus May 20.

A Jefferson man was killed June 24 when a large pine tree he was taking down fell back onto the excavator he was using for the task.

Acting June 14, the Minnehata Fire Co. in Nobleboro voted to remove Fire Chief Woodbury McLean from his position.

Confirming the fire department’s action, Dick Spear, chairman of the Nobleboro Board of Selectmen said Minnehata Assistant Chief Ryan Gallagher is currently serving as acting chief.

Damariscotta Selectman Vicky Pinkham leveled a bitter criticism at Board of Selectmen chairman Dick McLean last week “leaving all of us hanging out to dry.”

Kathleen S. Collamore, and Daren M. Deabler of Waldoboro are pleased to announce their engagement.

A head on traffic collision on Duck Puddle Rd., Nobleboro June 9 resulted in injuries to all parties involved.

State and federal authorities are currently searching for a career criminal who was last seen in Nobleboro June 3.

Wayne Collamore, 60, left a halfway house in Portland last Friday, May 28, rented a car and disappeared. Collamore was still in the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at the halfway house as part of his sentence.