The week of May 5-11 is National Correctional Officers Week. Two Bridges Regional Jail celebrated the week with a special luncheon for officers on May 7.

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Seventy-five residents of Edgecomb spent three and a half hours on Saturday, May 11, in lively but civil debate on 58 warrant…

Come and join the family of Arnold McLain for a celebration of life service at the Lewis residence, 61 Sawyer's Island Road, Boothbay on Saturday, May 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.…

Francis Emmanuel Bellizia Jr., 69, of Boothbay Harbor, died April 24 after a year-long battle with cancer.

He was born in Medford, Mass. on January 7,…

Keith Jameson, 78, of Port Saint Lucie, Fla. died Saturday, May 11, 2013 at Tiffany Hall Nursing Home.

He was born in Bath on June 16, 1934, a son of…

Dane Andrew Bonang, 26, of Wiscasset died in an automobile accident on May 11.

He was born in Bath on October 22, 1986, a son of Allan and Mary Beth…

Skidompha Library’s Porter Meeting Hall hummed with excitement on May 6 as the audience watched the short films made by Lincoln County high school students and waited to find out…

A 26-year-old Wiscasset man died following an early morning, single-vehicle crash May 11 in Wiscasset,  police said.

Wiscasset police responded to the…

Anne “Nancy” Eliot Hiatt, 92, died peacefully on May 9 at Maine Medical Center, after a day full of some song and visits with children and grandchildren. Her…

A committal service for Priscilla S. Dickson, who died February 26, 2013, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 19 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Wiscasset. Arrangements are by Daigle…

A celebration of life for Judith A. Herbert, who died February 16, 2013,will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Senior Center, Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset. A…

Woolwich residents supported the less expensive town office addition proposal, funds for the Patten Free Library in Bath and to renew a three-year contract with regional ambulance…

A Lincoln County planning panel has won $400,000 to study possible hazardous waste sites.

The work could get some…

The Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Board of Directors approved almost unanimously Wiscasset's plan for withdrawal from the…

The annual Edgecomb town meeting will be at 10 a.m., Saturday at the Edgecomb Town Hall.

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A Woolwich man was arrested on forgery charges in Brunswick on May 7. David Gillison, 31, of Woolwich, was caught attempting to cash a check for $5,000 from the Sagadahoc County…

Members of the Sheepscot Valley school district Board of Directors approved an increase of $100,000 to the education budget during their May 9 meeting in Windsor, after about three…

Fourteen-year-old Noah Jones of Newcastle is fighting the fight of his short life. He was diagnosed in March with high risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia and has been undergoing in-…

Benjamin O. Fitzgerald, 84, died January 21, 2013 in Dunnellon, Fla.

Ben was born in 1928 in Canaan, Maine to Susie and Benjamin O. Fitzgerald.…

Investigators believe a recent Dresden fire was intentionally set…

Jason Gallagher, 32, was transported to Maine Medical Center after rolling his 2013 Kia Optima near the intersection of the Huntoon…

The Rocky Channels Superintendent of Schools office on Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor will be closed on Friday, May 10 as staff will be attending professional development training. It…

Nominations closed in Dresden a week ago for the annual town elections June 11 with three candidates running for the second selectman post, which opened with the resignation of…

Donald Sumner Barter, 92, of Boothbay Harbor died peacefully on Monday, May 6, 2013 at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta after a brief illness.

He was born January 3, 1921 in Boothbay…

The following land transfers were recorded at Lincoln County Registry of Deeds in Wiscasset from April15-26:

 BOOTHBAY – Andrea Lamp to Endicott…

Rising insurance costs, funding for new staff at the District Attorney's office and slight salary increases were cited as some of the reasons for an overall increase to this year's…

Food pantry volunteers, historical society members and other Westport Island residents discussed alternative uses of the house on Wright Landing during a public session prior to…

Wiscasset residents passed up a chance to persuade one another how to vote on the budget come June 11.

With the budget being decided at the polls,…

A donation to the American Cancer Society had added meaning at Wiscasset Middle School May 3. The school donated $603 in recognition of fifth grade teacher Barbara Wyman.…

Maine Yankee's closure more than a decade and a half ago is still impacting Wiscasset and its schools, Wiscasset High School administrators said May 5.

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A series of what turned out to be fortunate events put Helen Call, 19, of Dresden in a position to help a choking co-worker May 6.

The University of…

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

Court security training completed

Lt. Michael…

Virginia “Ginny” Clark Kingsley Jones died the afternoon of April 21, 2013 at Covenant Hospice at Bay Medical Center, Panama City, Fla.

She was born…

No one was hurt May 7 in a fire confined to a home’s basement at 729 Middle Rd. in Dresden, fire officials said.

A neighbor reported the fire shortly…

Tickets for the July 10 Jackson Browne show, which went on sale at…

Local lobstermen are invited to attend an informational meeting on the proposed Maine Lobstering Union at the Dockside Grill restaurant at Cap'n Fish's Motel, Atlantic Avenue,…

Maddie Gray's broken leg couldn't keep her from a May 4 benefit walk to help send weekend food home with students who attend Wiscasset schools.

The 9-…

The St. Andrews Task Force was formed in response to a local crisis (the closing of St. Andrews Hospital's 24/7 emergency room). The four affected towns entered into an interlocal…

The Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Board of Directors will vote on Wiscasset's plan for withdrawal from the school district at its next meeting on May 9, according to a…

Elinor M. Lewis, 94, a lifelong resident of Wiscasset, died Sunday, May 5, 2013 at Cove's Edge in Damariscotta.

She was born on June 18, 1918 in…

By summer 2014, Alna could be paying less than half what it pays now to take its trash to the Wiscasset Transfer Station.

That's if the station goes…

Jean Swan Gordon died on April 26, 2013 at her home in Old Lyme, Conn., at the age of 91.She was born on February 22, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the oldest of four children, to John…

Wiscasset High School Junior Logan Grover has been selected to attend the Summer Future Business Leaders Academy at Mercy College in Manhattan and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

A new group, Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR), founded this February, had its first public outing April 30 when 14 of its members from different regions in Maine visited…

When fellow clam diggers asked Wiscasset Shellfish Committee Chairman Donald James if they could work fewer hours seeding clams and doing other conservation work each year, he didn…

Matt Carter, 41, of Boothbay Harbor and Jenna Krajewski, 33, of Hallowell won the men's and women's divisions of the 33rd annual Boothbay Region YMCA Rocky Coast 10k Road Race May…

A new grading system unveiled by Gov. Paul LePage doesn't change what school officials already know, but some hope it will spur further discussion and increased parental…

Old wounds reopened in Alna May 2, as former road commissioner Mike Trask and selectmen tangled anew over the board’s bidding policy.

There was even a…

Phyllis Banghart Burgess of Weston, Mass., and Southport, died peacefully on April 27 at her home with her family by her side.

Phyllis was born on…

Edna Miriam Bradford Lord, 105, of Norway, Maine died on January 29, 2013.

She was born on August 31, 1907 in Rangeley to Harry and Ethel Bradford.…