A 20-year-old Damariscotta man was arrested early Sunday morning and a dozen others were detained following complaints of a loud drunken party.

From President Obama to the president of the Maine Senate, elected officials are focused on insurance premium rate hikes.

Attention all pet owners – rabies has been reported in Wiscasset. Please be certain pets are up to date on their rabies vaccine.

The Damariscotta Lake Farms restaurant and bed and breakfast on Bunker Hill Road in Jefferson will open for business Feb. 10.

Damariscotta Police say a man found by the side of Rt. 1 early Monday was “very intoxicated,” but did not require medical attention.

Registered voters of Southport should know the four candidates running for positions on the school committee, town clerk and board of selectmen are uncontested as people go to the polls March 1. Ballot voting at the Southport Town Hall will be open from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

When Paul Leeman Jr. tuned 16, his father brought him to the Bristol Fire Department and signed him up.

“It was sort of a rite of passage at the time. When I turned 16, I joined the fire department, just like my father and grandfather,” he said.

Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI) is pleased to announce the addition of two foreclosure prevention counselors to help borrowers who are in foreclosure or at risk. CEI was able to increase its foreclosure prevention capacity as a result of a new contract with the state Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection, which has taken a lead role in outreach, referrals and counseling to homeowners in trouble.

Although the nation’s economic climate is uncertain, Gary Gravel and his wife Jane Oliver Gravel are expanding their Damariscotta print business to include selling and printing promotional items.

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.