The Damariscotta Board of Selectmen voted Aug. 5 to back the Lincoln County Commissioners in their battle with Sagadahoc County.

There should be no question as to what happens when a Waldoboro Police officer makes a stop, conducts a search or settles a dispute when video cameras are installed and running in all of the cruisers.

Surging waves and sea swells over the weekend kept local and county emergency systems on alert even though Hurricane Bill passed by New England without making landfall.

Vandals have delayed Damariscotta’s Belvedere Rd. culvert replacement project for the second time when they shut off giant pumps that were draining Oyster Creek.

Shannon Carter lay frozen on the bathroom floor of her Whitefield home. She couldn’t move her legs to stand.

A driver who refused medical transport sustained a few cuts on her arms after rolling her car over on the Bunker Hill Rd. in Jefferson Monday morning.

Wiscasset police have arrested a suspect related to the investigation into a string of burglaries to area businesses.

Robert Spear is just starting to harvest the plump, green tomatoes weighing down the plants covering his fields. Workers have already picked some from the 15 greenhouses on the farm.

A Round Pond lobsterman was rescued from the sea Thursday morning after his boat caught fire as he hauled traps off Haddock Island.

Looking for areas to trim, the finance committee of Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 (SVRSU 12) juggled figures that could knock close to $400,000 from the total local contribution of the previous budget.

A 21-year-old Wiscasset man has been indicted with manslaughter and criminal operating under the influence (OUI) in connection with a May 14 auto accident in Wiscasset.

It wasn’t a big surprise to the Sheepscot River Watershed Council’s (SRWC) coordinator that federal stimulus grant money didn’t flow into the organization’s coffers.

Economic development leaders, town managers, commissioners and administrators from Knox and Lincoln Counties had an informal discussion about possibly forging ahead with new alliances.

At their regular board meeting Monday Westport Island selectmen announced the state has approved a request to reallocate part of a $50,000 grant for the town landing project.