Still going strong after six years, Lincoln County Family Holiday Wishes, is hoping to top last year’s effort providing holiday gifts and dinners to families in need.

With his 15 Fiestas (parties) a week, Latin Native Antonio (Tony) Garreton is the talk of the Midcoast. For one hour, Garreton wants his students to forget everything going on around them and enjoy themselves.

The “Meet the Candidates” night forum hosted by union employees on Oct. 21 may have been legal under the constitution, but some county officials question the disbursement and posting of flyers for the meeting.

Three people were transported to Miles Memorial Hospital after a motorcycle collided with a station wagon on Main Street in Waldoboro on Tuesday afternoon.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On Oct. 28, Deputy Peter Kenyon responded to a report of a theft and burglary to a business in the Nobleboro area.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies Matt Day and Justin Drake responded to an early morning tractor trailer accident on Rt. 1 in Newcastle, which closed the area to vehicular traffic until 6:23 a.m. Tuesday.

After spending his life working on the sea, last week Chuck Bates, 80, of Newcastle, single-handedly piloted his motorboat, Grigri, down the Damariscotta River, and up the coast of Maine to Castine, where he donated the boat to Maine Maritime Academy (MMA).

Patrick and Kerri Hopkins of Washington are proud to announce the birth of their baby boy, Benjamin Patrick Hopkins.

Locally and across the nation it has been an historic election, from the first African-American President-Elect Barack Obama, to the record absentee turnout, and record volunteer participation.

At a time when municipalities, local governments and organizations have been mobilizing to help people prepare for winter, more people are consciously building ecologically and economically friendly housing from the ground up.

Mr. and Mrs. Troy Osgood of Bristol are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Marie Osgood, to Dustin James Carter, son of Edward Carter of Nobleboro and Sandra Carter of Newport.

Nov. 21 is a day that will likely be reviled for months to come as school systems across the state adjust to a statewide $27,046,649 cut in spending between now and June 30, 2009.

A Bremen fisherman has filed a civil suit against Lincoln County and the Town of Bremen for a summer 2007 boating accident causing loss of fish from his nets off Ram Island.

During the month of October and continuing into Early Bird Day on Nov. 1, Shapers Health Club in Damariscotta collected $150 in donations towards the Community Energy Fund.