Justice Daniel Billings on Sept. 17 denied Wiscasset School Department’s motion to vacate an arbitration award to teachers over…
Police, Fire and Courts
The Lincoln County Registry of Deeds provided the following information on property transfers recorded in September:
Alna: Ayers, Kenneth W. Tr. and Ayers Family Trust to Edmonston, Robert…
Lincoln County Commissioners
CodeRED, a text-based program to alert Lincoln County residents to emergencies and other critical alerts, is now live, Emergency Management Agency Director Casey Stevens told commissioners…
Lincoln County Courts
The following are closed cases for the Lincoln County Courts, for September. All information was provided by the Clerk of Court. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at Two Bridges…
Although Edgecomb has plenty of fishing areas, the best place to find fish Oct. 12 will be its fire station at 473 Boothbay Road.
That’s when the members of the fire department auxiliary…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
Two Bridges Regional Jail is about seven weeks into its Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) program with ENSO…
A South Bristol man died at the scene of a crash in that town Thursday night, Sept. 19. At 9:29 p.m., Lincoln County Communications Center received a 911 call from a resident on State Route 129 in…
Lincoln County Commissioners
In a special appreciation award Sept. 17, Lincoln County commissioners honored Jeffrey Sewell and Kathy Blagden. Sewell responded to a car crash involving Deputy Donald Davey on July 30, 1984.…
The following are closed cases for August from information provided by the court clerk. Unless otherwise noted, all sentenced are served at Two Bridges Regional Jail.
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With help from public works, Wiscasset police Sept. 12 harvested and removed 53 marijuana plants from a Pooler Pit Road property, Police Chief Larry Hesseltine said.
The homeowner, Ronald…
Cumberland County District Attorney Jonathan Sahrbeck announced Sept. 11 that on Sept. 9, a Cumberland County grand jury returned an indictment against Joshua King, 32, of Wiscasset, alleging 25…
Staff and vehicles that respond to Wiscasset’s emergencies responded to a cause Saturday at Circle K on Route 1: Special Olympics Maine. About two hours in, showers were turning to sprinkles and…
A rear-end crash near The First National Bank on Gardiner Road, Wiscasset had traffic down to one lane and briefly shut down traffic about 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6. Wiscasset Police Chief Larry…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the policy for the Lincoln County Rescue Task Force and authorized Emergency Management Director Casey Stevens to enter into a memo of…
Hometown Heroes speaker at Spruce Point Inn Sept. 12
When it comes to accident or illness, does geography determine your destiny?
In a state as large as Maine with a population that includes rural and island communities, a patient’s location…
UPDATE: The Maine Department of Marine Resources released this statement Wednesday afternoon about the body recovered in Greenland Cove on Monday:
The Maine Medical Examiner's Office has…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County commissioners on Tuesday gave the Sheriff’s Office permission to send officers to two out-of-state training courses in September, one on obtaining evidence from mobile devices, the…
“Unfortunately, the money wasn’t there,” said Corporal Dave Chabot of the Landowner Relations program of Maine’s Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife, about efforts to remove the Minesweeper…
Lincoln County Courts
Matthew Plummer, 36, of Wiscasset, pleaded guilty to two charges related to a domestic violence assault that led to an eight-hour standoff on Heritage Lane in Wiscasset on Dec. 14 and 15, 2018.…
Woolwich Fire Department
Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, Woolwich fire units responded to the end of Hockomock Road for a possible hazardous materials incident. The local trash company Riverside Disposal was, as they do every…
The Maine Marine Patrol has temporarily suspended the search of Round Pond Harbor for 63-year-old Glenn Murdoch of Bremen. The search will resume Thursday and continue through the weekend with…
Lincoln County Courts
These are the closed court cases in Lincoln County District and Superior courts for July. All information was provided by the Clerk of Courts. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at…
Lincoln County Courts
Guido Anthony Hernandez, 27, of Augusta, was found guilty last month of one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor and one count of Unlawful Sexual Touching for incidents in 2016. According to Lincoln…
Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 274 calls for service from Aug. 6 through Aug. 13. Year to date, LCSO has responded to 9,487…
UPDATE: The search for Glenn Murdoch, 63, of Bremen was suspended at 6 p.m. Tuesday and was set to resume at 8 a.m. Wednesday with divers, Maine Marine Patrol vessels and an airplane, Maine Marine…
When Woolwich’s Danny Evarts ran from Wiscasset’s fire station to Newcastle’s last year, the former military intelligence linguist and New York City music industry professional already considered…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Part of Lincoln County was temporarily left without emergency communications service July 19 after a sheared fiber cable left residents unable to use telephone or internet services. Lincoln County…
An event that celebrates neighborhood safety and community partnerships with police drew people of all ages to the Wiscasset town office lawn Tuesday, Aug. 6. Activities included a bounce house,…
Area fire departments got training Sunday in burning the former, longtime Huber’s Market on Route 1 in Wiscasset. Dollar General…
Lincoln County courts
A Wiscasset teachers union’s grievance issue has landed in court. The school department is challenging an arbitrator’s award of four days’ pay he said teachers have coming from the 2017-18 school…
Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office learned July 31 that Barry Wyman, 58, of Woolwich,…
Join us for “National Night Out,” an event that celebrates neighborhood safety and community partnerships with our police department. This event on the town office lawn from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m…
State still looking
Update: The U.S.Coast Guard reported over Twitter Tuesday night, crews have suspended the active search, “pending further developments.” And Wednesday afternoon, Maine Department of Marine…
Lincoln County Commissioners
The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency has developed and signed a memorandum of understanding with Newcastle landowner Matthew Weaver for the use of his Hunt Hill Road property.…
UPDATE, Monday afternoon: Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office has issued this latest press release with new details including names of those involved:
A 2016 GMC Penske cargo van driven by…
Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority
Two Bridges Regional Jail – now without its largest contributing county, Waldo – is considering other options to fill space. Among them is working with the federal government to accept…
On July 9 at approximately 5 p.m., the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fatal motor vehicle accident on Head Tide Road in Whitefield. The investigation showed that Eric Sroka, 38, of…
Lincoln County Courts
The following are the closed cases in Lincoln County Unified Courts for June. All information was provided by the Clerk of Courts. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency got permission Tuesday to apply for a Homeland Security grant to fund a county-wide emergency support team in the event of a mass-casualty event, such as…
Lincoln County Courts
Christopher Morrison, 51, owner of the Minesweeper, which sank in Wiscasset Harbor in January 2018, has been held responsible for the single charge of littering for his failure to raise…
An hour into Edgecomb Fire Department Auxiliary’s pancake breakfast Saturday, firefighters had already cooked an estimated 100 pancakes, eight pounds of bacon and four pounds of sausage patties,…
Lincoln County Courts
In Superior Court in Wiscasset Tuesday, Shawna Gatto, 44, of Wiscasset, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of her fiance’s granddaughter, 4-year-old Kendall Chick, who died Dec. 8…
A judge has sentenced Kendall Chick’s convicted murderer Shawna Gatto of Wiscasset to serve 50 years in prison, Wiscasset Newspaper’s Gina Hamilton reports.
Full coverage to follow.
After alerting Maine Department of Transportation to the proposed parade route for July 4 in Wiscasset, Chief Larry Hesseltine confirmed the following route:
Leaving the town office…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
With the departure of Waldo County as a boarding county for Two Bridges Regional Jail at the end of the month, TBRJ can turn its sights toward a full-scale, wrap-around addiction treatment center…
A crash in Jefferson Sunday night claimed the life of a Jefferson woman.
At approximately 7:59 p.m. Sunday, Lincoln County Communications Center received a report of a single-vehicle…
Saturday morning, Bath Iron Works christened DDG 118 the USS Inouye, in an invitational-only event, and people from Maine Veterans for Peace and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear…
Lincoln County Courts
Jonathan D. Roberts, 45, of Waban, Massachusetts, facing a charge of manslaughter in the death of Kristen McKellar on Aug. 2, 2018, when his boat allegedly hit McKellar as she swam in Damariscotta…
