Scott Libby and Sarah Falconer of New Harbor are proud to announce the arrival of Claire Edwina Libby.

Bristol Consolidated School 7th grader Shawn Burns of Round Pond spent more than six hours hauling traps on Saturday afternoon, but he didn’t make a cent, nor did he expect to.

The investigation continues into the head-on collision on Union Road that took the life of a 63-year-old Waldoboro man June 4.

The three Lincoln Academy Climate Action Club members could hardly contain their glee when they brought their first load of “green” bags to the Maine Coast Book Shop & Café last Thursday. It was the culmination of two years in planning and the satisfaction of the project finally materializing had a positively giddying effect on the three.

Proud parents James Parlin and Heather Dakin of Waldoboro are pleased to announce the arrival of their twin girls, Kylee Mae and Lexi Jane Parlin.

Ellen and Kyle Westhaver of Round Pond are pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Talon Fin.

Approximately 200 Regional School Unit 12 voters met in the Whitefield School gym Tuesday and slashed $1.8 million from the proposed budget. The cut, according to one administrator, eliminates 20 teachers.

The battle was pitched between education, with parents’ pleas to prioritize schoolchildren, and the plight of taxpayers, especially the elderly and workers threatened by job loss.

A Damariscotta couple was arrested Monday after two sets of parents complained their daughters were given a variety of pills, marijuana and vodka in a weekend long party.

The cost of restoring a suspended driver’s license or vehicle registration in Maine will increase by $15 next week under new provisions approved by the Legislature.

Jane and Simon Frost are proud to announce the birth of their son, William Simon Frost, on June 10, at his home in Whitefield at 2:50 a.m.

With only Westport Island showing a close rejection, voters throughout the eight towns in the Sheepscot Valley RSU 12 resoundingly rejected a $25.8 million school budget at the polls Tuesday.

In contrast, the voters approved the Central Lincoln County School Budget 842 to 352, while the budget for MSAD 40 earned passage 737 to 561.

A rash of trafficking in prison contraband cases at Two Bridges Regional Jail in last month’s grand jury indictments has been attributed at least in part to the visitation setup.

Last month alone the grand jury dealt with seven instances which occurred this year. “We are aggressive in seeking prosecution of any controlled substances,” Maj. Mark Anderson, assistant correctional administrator said this week.

Earl Bieler, 25, and Corinna Durkee, 43, appeared before Lincoln County Superior Court Justice Andrew Horton today, and entered pleas of “not guilty” in the murder of Rachel Grindal in Waldoboro.

Wiscasset School Supt. Jay McIntire has announced his resignation and confirmed plans to accept a comparable position in New Hampshire this week.