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.

Proud parents Caitlyn Butler and Carl Petersen of New Harbor announce the birth of their baby boy, Samuel Isaac Oliver Petersen.

One man died and two men were critically injured as a result of a head-on collision on the Union Road in Waldoboro June 4. Harold Benner, 66, of Waldoboro was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after emergency personnel arrived moments after the 4 p.m. call.

All articles on the 2009-’10 Jefferson School budget passed as recommended without so much as a whimper from the approximate 30 people in attendance at the open town meeting on May 27. The meeting at the Jefferson Village School gymnasium lasted roughly 30 minutes as voters waved through most of the 17 articles by hand count.

The Newcastle Board of Selectmen appointed themselves the town’s design review committee Monday evening and agreed to begin the process of reworking the current design ordinances.

A Waldoboro couple has been indicted on charges including assault, burglary and murder in connection with an attack that left one woman dead and another critically injured.