At their regular meeting Monday noon, Westport Island selectmen set the new tax rate for 2009-10 at 5.42 mils based on a total tax commitment of $1.4 million.

Somer D. Welch, 27, of Wiscasset, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, $100.

Tylor West, 20, of Wiscasset, criminal mischief, $150, restitution $343.50.

After a statewide flood closure to harvest shellfish, due to all the rain, clam diggers will once again be out of work as red tide hits harvest areas.

The buoy system utilized by Dept. of Marine Resources red tide testing staff is a little talked about program and, according to DMR staff and clam harvesters alike, a real success story.

Lincoln County Commissioners are considering their legal options after a July 15 vote by the board of The Mid Coast Economic Development District that left the future of the Lincoln County Economic Development Office in question.

Carmen Franziska Handel-Meyer was born at 2:09 p.m. on July 22 in Alexandria, Va. Her mother is Natalie Handel, her father is Guillaume Meyer and they currently live in Washington, D.C.

A Station Boothbay Harbor 25-foot response boat crew responded to where a 15-foot boat sank in the Sheepscot River about five miles from Boothbay Harbor Tuesday at 1:10 p.m.

Join the folks at Damariscotta Bank & Trust Company on Fri., July 17 as they celebrate the first year anniversary of the 619 Main Street Branch with a special Luau Celebration.

New rules that make it tougher for gubernatorial candidates to qualify for public campaign funding create an unfair burden for third-party contenders, according to members of the Green Independent Party.

Pockets of damage from the violent Friday thunderstorm total $200,000 in Lincoln County towns as reported Tuesday morning.

Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Tim Pellerin told county commissioners at their regular meeting Tuesday he has filed a declaration of disaster to the state Emergency Management Agency.

Locomotives are a regular part of Ernest Vannah’s life. The screen saver on his desktop depicts a rolling slideshow of trains and his office at Vannah Insurance Agency on Jefferson Street in Waldoboro is peppered with locomotive memorabilia, perhaps to reminisce on days growing up on the hardy side of the tracks.

Parents John and Torie Ruit are proud to announce the birth of their baby boy, Seth Anthony William Ruit.

Shoshanna Zuboff was wrapping brownies for her son in the kitchen of her Nobleboro home late Thursday night when a bolt of lightning struck the window frame just inches away. In a matter of hours, the family home, its memories, its life was leveled to the ground.

Lance and Stacie Miller of Waldoboro are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Jacoby Bradley Miller.

This was supposed to be a good summer for John and Sergiu.

After all, Sergiu told his pal John, they could earn enough by working in Maine for the summer to buy a car or pay for school.

The two young Romanian men decided to follow the path traveled each year by hundreds of other young adults. For years, summer workers from American colleges, from the Caribbean and now Europeans have journeyed to Lincoln County to work in service jobs for the tourist industry.