Mr. and Mrs. James and Pebble Kelsey of South Bristol and Mr. Lee Straw of Newcastle announce the engagement of their daughter Autumn Amanda Straw to Christian Henning Vagtborg, son of Christian Peter and Connie Vagtborg of Saint Simmons Island, Ga.

Escaped felon Wayne Collamore was arrested around 2 p.m. today at the Owl’s Head Light State Park in Owl’s Head. Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested Collamore without incident after he was spotted in a car that was reported stolen from Round Pond earlier today.

The Nobleboro Central School Board has named Ann Hassett of Waldoboro as the school’s new principal. Hassett will succeed current principal Mark Deblois who announced his retirement earlier this year.

After decades of requests from the Town of Wiscasset for a U.S. Rt. 1 Bypass of Wiscasset Village, and after many years of transportation and environmental studies spearheaded by the Maine Dept. of Transportation (MaineDOT), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued its determination of the Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative (LEDPA) on May 24.

Kat Beaudoin, Chief of the Bureau of Transportation Systems Planning for the Maine Dept. of Transportation, said the latest developments in the search for a Rt. 1 bypass brought the town, “the closest we’ve come in 50 years to having the ability to move forward.”

The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen held a special, workshop-style meeting June 23 to take the first step restoring four department budgets rejected by voters June 8.

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

Boothbay: Mark F. Stickney (Tr.) and M. W. Sewall & Co. (Est.) to Eni Route 27 Boothbay LLC;

Sweltering weather didn’t stop a large crowd of history buffs, volunteers and local officials from enjoying the 250th Anniversary ceremony at Pownalborough Courthouse in Dresden June 19.

Those who have been following the community planning process in Damariscotta have probably heard about the recent charrette and a recommendation for implementing form-based codes.

Once again, Damariscotta is thankful that marauding pillagers of the Pirate Rendezvous left the town in one piece after making landfall on June 12, amidst raised cutlasses, booming cannon fire, and threatened mayhem, all to the giggles and delight of children.

In Wiscasset’s most visible race, town voters chose Judith Colby, (723 votes), Ed Polewarczyk (527) and David Nichols (485) to fill three vacant slots on the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen, bringing an end to a lively competition. Mark Johnson (377) and Michael Maney (293) finished out of contention.

After 10 years as the principal of Nobleboro Central School, Mark Deblois announced his retirement last month. Deblois, 58, will step down from his position at the end of the school year.

Deblois will begin work as the principal at the Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls, N.H., next fall.

Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a Windsor woman they allege was driving one of two vehicles that struck and killed a pedestrian on N. Clary Rd. in Jefferson in 2008.

Sunny skies and cheering crowds greeted veterans, bands, Boy and Girl Scouts and friendly firefighters at the 2010 Twin Villages Memorial Day parade.