Buckle up and ride it out, there will be no easy way for RSU 12 to change partners or tweak rules.

Such seems to be the message from several quarters, following the Jan. 26 rejection of the fourth proposed 2010 budget for the regional school unit also known as Sheepscot Valley RSU 12. It contains the towns of Wiscasset, Westport Island, Alna, Whitefield, Somerville, Chelsea, Windsor and Palermo.

A deluge of rainfall followed by howling winds blasted through Lincoln County Thurs., leaving a wake of flooded roads and downed wires. A total of 15 Lincoln County towns were reporting power outages affecting over 700 homes, according to Central Maine Power (CMP). A check of roads affected by the blackouts town by town was too long to publish, but indicated that power outages were affecting numerous roads in the 15 towns.

After a 14-word final round, Hunter Herron, an eighth-grader at Bristol Consolidated School, won the Lincoln County Spelling Bee at Jefferson Village School on Feb. 8.

Ava Elizabeth Nickerson arrived on Dec. 23, 2009 to proud parents Chad and Virginia Nickerson of Nobleboro.

The power is out in at least 40 percent of Waldoboro, and could be down for as long as three days, said Waldoboro Emergency Management Director Kyle Santheson at noon on Feb. 26.

Registered nurse Andy Kennedy from Waldoboro expects he will soon return to Haiti to join a medical team working in the earthquake-ravaged country and welcomes donations for the effort.

Beginning in April the Maine Department of Labor will put plastic – instead of paper checks – in the hands of unemployed residents.

An accident involving a tractor trailer and a silver Camaro on Rt. 1 in Waldoboro Wednesday afternoon sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries.

Mary Bowers has told the trustees of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District “thanks, but no thanks” to their offer of a retirement party.

In a letter sent this week, she said she was forced to resign from the district after enduring five years of abuse from one trustee.

Just as the evening commute began, high winds caused a tree to take out a transformer and power wires at the Bristol Rd. near Cross St., effectively closing the road to through traffic for an undetermined amount of time.

Wiscasset Middle School eighth grader Nick Brackley surprised teachers, school staff and himself when he raised $1536.72 to support Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. Inspired to do more to help the thousands of people left homeless in a country ravaged by an earthquake last month, Wiscasset students have also started a shoe drive.

Christopher and Krystle Hodgdon of Edgecomb are proud to announce the arrival of their beautiful daughter, Arabella Rose.

Lincoln County’s Emergency Management Agency reports the county is one of two hardest hit areas in the state following a major storm front that passed through during the overnight hours Feb. 25, 26.

Since firefighters have visited the Rockland County, NY Fire Academy in past years, they have long wanted to bring the same equipment for training to Maine and Lincoln County.