Voters in Waldoboro used the polls to express their desire for a smaller municipal budget on June 8.

Members of the Wiscasset Transportation Committee firmly denounced the recent Army Corps of Engineers decision to approve Route N8c, the “long bridge option,” as the Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative (LEDPA) for a bypass at a June 7 meeting.

For several years now, Walpole landscaper Tim Stegna has planted a garden near the Rt. 129 in South Bristol.

As basketball fans prepare for the renewal of the historic Celtics-Lakers rivalry, Dresden voters must decide the victor in a less hyped, but equally well-matched competition.

The Lincoln County News is pleased to announce Alec Brodsky of Woolwich has joined the staff as a general assignment reporter.

The Waldoboro Police report the following activities from the previous week:

Arrests/SummonsesMay 24, Officer Thomas Bartunek summonsed the following people for seatbelt violations: Christopher Court, 26, of Nobleboro; Robert Barter, 46, of South Thomaston; Kevin O’Donnell, 48, of Nobleboro and Leeanna Hutchings, 52, of Nobleboro.

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.”