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.

After a daylong search, the Maine Warden Service recovered the body of a Waldoboro man in Damariscotta Lake on Jan. 14.

Daniel E. Benner, 28, Damariscotta, criminal mischief, Two Bridges Regional Jail 75 days, all suspended; assault, Two Bridges Regional Jail 75 days; domestic violence assault, $300, Two Bridges Regional Jail 364 days, all but 75 days suspended, probation one year.

A Whitefield resident sustained injuries to his face after rolling his van off Rt. 218 in Alna Tuesday morning and was transported to Miles Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Edgecomb School Committee members met with some staff and town selectmen Jan. 5 to discuss the possibility of adding grades 7 and 8 into the Edgecomb Eddy School’s K-6 structure. Committee members also approved filing a notice of intent to form an Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) with Georgetown, Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor and Southport during their Jan. 5 School Board meeting.