The annual Guys in Gowns fundraiser is this Saturday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta.

Tickets are $15 for adults, and $5 for children under 12. The event is catered by King Eider’s Pub, and food will be available for $15. All proceeds support Youth Promise.

Rt. 27 in Edgecomb near Sheepscot River Pottery was closed for a short time Mon. afternoon as first responders dealt with a semi truck with a live electric wire down on the vehicle.

With a vocal minority crying “not fair,” voters at the RSU 12 budget adoption meeting Saturday agreed to the $26.1 million spending plan.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Winter Weather Advisory regarding snowfall expected to move in early Mon. morning and taper off in the afternoon, leaving a forecast 3-5 inches of accumulation in Lincoln County.

The Damariscotta Selectmen voted Wednesday to exclude outside groups from this year’s regular budget process in a move designed to shore up existing funding for municipal services.

The parents of police shooting victim, Gregori Jackson, filed a wrongful death suit with the Maine Superior Court on Dec. 16.

Millard and Natalie Jackson of Whitefield filed the civil suit against the town of Waldoboro, the officer and town officials for damages suffered and indeterminate costs in the shooting death of their son.

Damariscotta Police Department reports the following activity:

Arrests and summonsesDec. 1, 2009, Gabriel V. Shadis, 38, of Damariscotta was arrested for operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

Dec. 29, 2009, Lawrence E. Taylor, 64, of Rockland was summonsed for failing to wear a seatbelt.

Light rain began falling on Monday morning, but that was just a mild preview for a storm expected to pummel Lincoln County with high winds and heavy rainfall beginning mid-afternoon and running into the evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). This same storm has already left a path of watery devastation as it chugged across the country. Lincoln County will only have to endure 5 to 6 hours of weather as the storm front passes, but it is forecast to bring winds gusting to 60 mph and rainfall coming in wind-driven sheets.

Alna selectmen said at their Jan. 18 meeting they want R. Hopkins Concrete to return $10,000 paid in Aug. 2009 for work on the town’s sand and salt shed. In other business, the board also discussed the RSU 12 budget meeting on Saturday, where several people from town voted down budget articles.

Divers with the Maine Warden Service this afternoon recovered the body of a Waldoboro snowmobiler from Damariscotta Lake who was reported missing this morning.

Westport Island selectmen will not convene on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for their regularly scheduled board meeting, but will instead be down on the shore to oversee the Ferry Landing project.

Wiscasset Town Manager Arthur Faucher was absent from the regular Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday night when selectmen approved the nomination of a deputy town manager and briefly discussed advertising to hire a new town manager.

In other court news:

Two bulletins have been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in regards to a wind and rain storm that has left a path of watery devastation as it chugged across the country and is now expected in Lincoln County beginning early Mon. morning.