A New Year’s nor’easter dumped over a foot of snow on Lincoln County and pummeled the area with high winds, but local residents weathered the storm well.

Sixth District Court trials, decisions, pleadings, and sentencings.

Damariscotta Police Chief Steve Drake confirmed a “bomb scare” prompted the closing of the Damariscotta Hannafords’ grocery store early Wednesday afternoon. After a search lasting around three hours, responders were able to clear the scene shortly before 5 p.m.

A two-car collision in Dresden last week sent the two operators to different hospitals.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the accident occurred around 10:25 a.m., Jan. 13 at the intersection of Rt. 27 and Common Road.

The time is now to become a member or renew one’s membership with the Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce. Membership includes a free listing of one’s business in the 2010 Region guidebooks, or one may choose to place a color ad for an additional cost.

In duck hawking, one for two isn’t bad, but for Larry Barnes, a falconer from Wiscasset, his hunt on Jan. 8 was a rough one.

Attempts to quiet misgivings about a municipally organized fire department set the tone of a Whitefield citizens committee meeting with selectmen and firefighters last week.

A 63-year-old Nobleboro man was badly beaten in the parking lot of the Hannaford Brothers Supermarket in Waldoboro on Jan. 19.

The SafetyWorks! program of the Maine Dept. of Labor has awarded Hodgdon Yachts the Pine Tree Award in recognition of the company’s ongoing efforts to improve workplace safety and health at its East Boothbay facility.

The Lincoln County Superior Court unsealed the indictment of Franklin Poe on Jan. 20.

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.