A 47-year-old transient was arrested by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in connection with an alleged sexual assault in Whitefield Sept. 29.

On Oct. 22, at 1:30 a.m., Betsy Evans and Dick Cleveland were awakened by the sounds of commotion outside their home on Hopkins Hill Road in Newcastle.

Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation (GOMLF), a small Maine-based non-profit organization collaborating with northeast lobstermen and scientists on industry-based research projects, will hold two more groundline exchanges for Maine lobstermen who have already signed up for the Bottom Line Project.

In August, the state Planning Office (SPO) notified Edgecomb in August it considers the town’s proposed comprehensive plan “not complete” and gave the town a 90-day deadline to fix it.

Statehouse News ServiceQuestion 3 on the statewide referendum Nov. 3 asks voters to repeal a mandatory school consolidation law passed in 2007.

The law aimed to reorganize several school units into larger regional units and to otherwise reduce administrative and business costs in districts where consolidation was unfeasible. The law also aimed to shed paperwork for the Dept. of Education and streamline budget review by ensuring all districts used similar budget formats and reorganized districts submitted one budget instead of numerous budgets by town or district.

The Maine Dept. of Education will postpone collecting student Social Security numbers until the start of the 2010-11 academic year.

A proposal to upgrade Central Maine Power Company’s (CMP) electric transmission highway topped the Whitefield Planning Board’s agenda on Oct. 21.

With the arrival of the 2009 holiday season just around the corner, the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District is once again proud to be teaming up with the annual Toys for Tots Campaign to give back to the community it represents.

The family of a missing Whitefield woman learned late Tuesday night she has been found in California.

A two-vehicle crash in Dresden late Tuesday morning resulted in the death of one of the drivers at the intersection of Patterson and Cedar Grove Roads.

Meeting Oct. 5, the Damariscotta Planning Board Monday delayed the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District’s plans to sell a three-acre lot to the town’s assistant fire chief in order to permit neighbors to comment on the deal.

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A Westport Island neighborhood setback dispute for a proposed home goes before the appeals board on Thursday. In question is the property’s non-conforming size near an abutter.

Officials eased visitation bans at the Two Bridges Regional Jail Oct. 16 after consulting with Maine state health officials.