The towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle, which awarded a joint cemetery maintenance contract Monday, are in talks to create a consolidated public works department.

The following decisions were handed down in Lincoln County Superior Court:

Corey H. Ater, 22, Bath, assault, Two Bridges Regional Jail 60 days, probation partially revoked, probation continued.

Joshua Benner, 21, Waldoboro, theft by deception, Two Bridges Regional Jail 45 days, probation partially revoked, probation continued; burglary, Two Bridges Regional Jail 45 days, probation partially revoked, probation continued.

Robert Barnes’s farm does not satisfy anyone’s picturesque ideal. There are no rolling hay fields or livestock grazing in the distance.

A lawsuit against the Town of Whitefield and its appeal board has been dismissed in Lincoln County Superior Court.

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

Arrests and summonsesFeb. 9, Lt. Allen issued a summons to Laurent P. Blanchette, 23, of Biddeford, for possession of usable amount of marijuana on Federal Street.

Augusta police said they recovered a gun in a bus stop snow bank today they believe is linked to a shooting that sent a Whitefield man to the Kennebec County Jail.

Dresden selectmen heard from a local entrepreneur regarding remote heating system monitoring and approved an estimated budget figure for this year’s Winter Fest during their regular Monday night meeting.

The Waldoboro Board of Selectmen’s Feb. 23 meeting started on a somber note, as the board accepted the resignation of Selectman John Blamey.

The Newcastle Selectmen have asked the town fire company to provide detailed financial statements along with the department’s 2010 budget requests.

The request triggered some resistance from the private volunteer fire department.

When an 88-year-old man jumped off the Rt. 27 Southport swing bridge spanning Boothbay Harbor and Southport Island on the morning of Jan. 15, several minutes passed between an initial 911 cell phone call and the time First Responders arrived.

Lydia Anderson and Jonathan Bennett Sr. of Waldoboro are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Jonathan Marshall Bennett Jr.

All it will take for Whitefield to acquire a new fire truck is $20,000 – plus a few repairs at the North Whitefield Volunteer Fire Dept. station to make it fit.

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

Arrests and summonsesFeb. 11, Officer Michel Dutil arrested Leo Barter, 38, of Boothbay, for operating after suspension.

Friday’s fundraising dinner at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Newcastle will help a group of Haitian refugees in the village of Gros-Morne that have fled from the devastation created by the Jan. 12 earthquake which flattened buildings and took the lives of more than a hundred thousand victims.