Parties to a Whitefield lawsuit met in a confidential mediation session last week at the Camden law offices of Terry Calderwood. Serving as mediator, Calderwood said, “The purpose is to see if we can settle this case. This is an unusual mediation.”

At least one major facility, the Episcopalian Holy Trinity Cathedral in Haiti, supported in part by St. Andrews Church in Newcastle, has been completely destroyed, according to Bishop Stephen Lane who quotes an e-mail from the Rev. Kesner Ajax in Haiti. The information was confirmed by broadcast reports from the area.

Is there a central fire station in Whitefield’s future?

Members of the town property committee (alternately known as the town office building committee) presented selectmen a sketch, downsized from an earlier design. The projected total cost is $548,144 for the structure and site work.

Police are investigating the shooting death of a young Wiscasset man in his home early this morning.

The Sheepscot Harbour Village & Resort in Edgecomb sold at auction to Savings Bank of Maine on Jan. 29 for $7.5 million.

Statehouse News ServiceThe Jan. 21 auction of the real estate, mill, and assets of Moosehead Manufacturing ended before it could begin when Tardy-Connors Group LLC filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Bangor.

Representative Josh Tardy, the House Minority Leader, Maine State Chamber of Commerce President Dana Connors, and Ed Skovron, a small businessman from Rhode Island, are the principal owners of Moosehead Manufacturing.

Damariscotta Police Chief Steve Drake has confirmed that a “bomb scare” prompted the closing of the Damariscotta Hannafords’ grocery store earlier this afternoon.

Alison Welsh, PA-C will be joining the medical staff at Sheepscot Valley Health Center in Coopers Mills in February. She recently completed the Master of Medical Science, Physician Assistant Program at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA.

Wiscasset selectmen met with former Brunswick Town Manager Donald Gerrish during their Jan. 12 meeting to discuss the possibility of hiring him for consulting services to the town on management issues.

A fourth attempt to adopt a Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 budget takes place this Saturday at Windsor School.

The Maine Department of Transportation is set to begin repairs to the Barter’s Island drawbridge in the town of Boothbay, and motorists should expect to see construction activity beginning the week of Jan. 11.

John and Sara Mitchell of South Bristol are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Colin Kirby Mitchell.

A former branch manager with Camden National Bank faces a lawsuit alleging that she stole just under $80,000 from the Maine Contractors and Builders Alliance Inc.

On the scene at the Damariscotta Hannaford’s store on Bus. Rt. 1, the Damariscotta Fire Chief said he is not sure why emergency responders were called to the store earlier this afternoon, but he did confirm the Fire Dept. is acting at the request of the Damariscotta Police.