“Not quite there but pretty close” is how accountant Fred Brewer described progress on an audit of the Boothbay Region Humane Society. Brewer met with officers and began working on the financial review in June.

Damariscotta Bank & Trust President Thomas Finn asserts there are reasons why the community banks are weathering problems that have leveled some of the nation’s financial giants.

The Damariscotta Police report the following:

The Waldoboro Police report the following activities from the previous week:

Across-the-board cuts of 10 percent in the state budget would eliminate dozens of positions and reduce numerous program services, but that’s what’s being explored by the Baldacci administration in the face of nose-diving revenues.

Mrs. and Mrs. Philip Page of Nobleboro, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly E. Page, of Newton, Mass., to Christopher E. Gwozdz, also of Newton. Christopher is the son of Edward and Margaret Gwozdz of Cheshire, Mass.

Clean drinking water will be in the spotlight Nov. 4 when voters will be asked, “Do you favor a $3,400,000 bond issue to support drinking water programs, to support the construction of wastewater treatment facilities and to leverage $17,000,000 in other funds?”

Corrections Administrator Mark Westrum reported last week Sagadahoc County’s inmate count at Two Bridges Regional Jail continues to exceed that of Lincoln County.

The Climate Action Club of Lincoln Academy will be featured in an upcoming segment of “Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” a new series that’s part of the Sundance Channel’s lineup. 

 

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Cronkhite of Whitefield are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Addie Beulah Cronkhite to Jeremy Warren Joslyn the son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Joslyn of Windsor.

Chuck and Megan Dinsmore of Damariscotta, and John and Kathleen McQuillan of Winthrop, Mass., are proud to present their first grandchild, Tess Oakley McQuillan, born July 3 at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Sometime between 11:10 a.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Tuesday, one or more individuals broke into a Nobleboro business and made off with two Rinnai heaters, valued at $1500 each.

Inmates at the Two Bridges Regional Jail have been clearing brush and readying a large square patch of land in back of the jail to grow vegetables next spring.

Lisa L. Ring, 38, of Wiscasset, violating condition of release, jail 48 hours; failure to give correct name, address of date of birth, jail 48 hours.