Mark Creamer is interim communications director of Lincoln County Regional Communications Center while the search continues for the next permanent one, County Administrator Carrie Kipfer announced…
Police, Fire and Courts
Lincoln County District Attorney Jon Liberman has announced that Katherine MacCrae has been sworn in as the new assistant district attorney working in Lincoln County.
Katherine resides in…
Kendall Chick's accused murderer Shawna Gatto has waived her right to a jury trial, leaving it to a judge to decide the case in a trial likely to take place in January. Gatto appeared in a…
Two Midcoast men have been charged by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in connection with break-ins and thefts at a job site in Bristol and a store in Boothbay.
The job site was at…
The Overseers of the Bar requested the Maine Supreme Judicial Court suspend attorney Jonathan Hull of Newcastle, over multiple violations of the Maine Rules of Professional Conduct.
Hull…
Lincoln Counthy Sheriff’s Office
On Aug. 25, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a stolen 1930 Ford Model A Coupe. The Model A was stolen from a residence in Nobleboro between May and Aug.…
Shawna Gatto, acccused in the murder of her fiance’s 4-year-old granddaughter Kendall Chick of Wiscasset, is asking the court to suppress statements she made under questioning after Dec. 10, 2017…
Ryan Morrill, 32, of North Monmouth, a former dance teacher at Midcoast Dance Studio in Newcastle and other area dance studios, has pleaded guilty to one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor. The…
Wiscasset selectmen
Wiscasset's new police chief is Larry Hesseltine of Waldoboro. Town Manager Marian Anderson announced the hiring at the Aug. 21 selectmen’s meeting.
Hesseltine has 30 years' law…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
On Thursday, Aug. 16 at approximately 9:49 a.m., Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported rollover involving a loaded fish bait truck on U.S. Route 1 near Mexicali Blues. The fish…
During the public comment period of the Aug. 14 Wiscasset selectmen’s meeting, Pam Logan referred to a July 22 police case after a road rage incident…
Wiscasset selectmen
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is assisting the Wiscasset Police Department with night patrols until the department is staffed adequately. Sheriff’s deputies will patrol from 4 p.m. until 7 a…
Lincoln County Courts
A Newcastle man who practices law in Damariscotta is out on bail and facing several charges connected with his alleged mishandling of funds from a Bath nonprofit. On Aug. 8, a warrant was issued…
Wiscasset Police Department
Patrol Officer James Fisher of the Wiscasset Police Department has resigned, effective Aug. 10, to accept a job at the Brunswick Police Department.
With his departure, Sgt. Craig Worster…
A Wiscasset Ambulance Service ambulance took a Wiscasset firefighter to a Brunswick hospital Wednesday night, Aug. 8 with a thumb injury he got during hydrant training at Maine Yankee, Fire Chief…
The National Night Out, a 35-year-old national picnic joining families, town officials, and first responders, had its first rollout in Wiscasset Aug. 7.
Unfortunately, the weather had…
On Aug. 2, at about 2:20 p.m., the Boothbay Harbor Police Department received a report of a vehicle taken without its owner’s permission. The owner’s son, Hunter Andrews, 19, of Boothbay Harbor,…
A Camden woman has died as a result of injuries sustained in a boating crash while she was swimming in Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson Thursday, Aug. 2.
Kristen A. McKellar, 32, was…
The Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority Aug. 1 had an executive session, then in open session voted to have members and the administrator work toward a contract with Penobscot County. The work is…
“What else are you going to do on a Tuesday night,” Wiscasset Police Sgt. Craig Worster said Friday. In an interview at the station, he said a community event on a Tuesday might get fewer takers…
A two-vehicle accident near Wiscasset Lodge on Route One at around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon sent one person to a hospital.
The accident is still under investigation by the Wiscasset…
Boothbay Harbor Police Department
Boothbay Harbor Police Chief Bob Hasch issued a warning about the potential for high potency drugs in the Midcoast Maine region.
Hasch said Boothbay Harbor Police Department and Boothbay…
Joseph “Joe” Westrich is no longer Lincoln County's Director of Communications, according to a letter County Administrator Carrie Kipfer sent county fire chiefs July 19. Westrich had been…
Lincoln County Courts
The following are closed cases at the Lincoln County Courts for June. All information was provided by the Lincoln County Clerk of Courts. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at Two…
WARREN (7/27/18) – As of Friday, July 27, Sydney Faulkingham, of Alna, remains in critical condition at Maine Medical Center, according to the hospital’s media spokesperson.
Due…
The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency previewed its new emergency operations center (EOC) on Thursday evening, July 19.
Local public safety members and other invited guests toured…
Cumberland County Courts
Sumner Lipman of Lipman and Katz, and James Belleau of Trafton, Matzen, Belleau and Frenette appeared in Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland to file a class action suit July 19 on behalf…
In June, Edgecomb residents authorized the purchase of a new fire truck. That was the easy part. During a June 4 special town meeting, 31 residents unanimously approved buying the $247,600 truck.…
Lincoln County District Attorney
The following are indictments the grand jury reached for July in District VI. Indictments list charges. They are not convictions.
Branden R. Belanger, 47, of Mexico, indicted for…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Commissioners approved several grant application requests Tuesday from the Emergency Management Agency and Lincoln County Planning Commission.
The EMA grants are Homeland…
DHHS under great scrutiny over handling of Stockton Spring girl’s death
AUGUSTA — Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Commissioner Ricker Hamilton appeared before the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee (GOC) for the first time July 10,…
A home burned on July 16 at 19 Calls Hill Road in Dresden. Owners Rich and Linda Hermans were not at home when the fire broke out around 3:30 p.m., Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Bridgham…
Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority
Two Bridges Regional Jail Authority discovered July 11, very little business had been done the previous month. Not a single committee had met, their chairs acknowledged.
The Finance…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County commissioners approved buying a computer server that will tell the state and dispatch more about who is accessing the databases.
Officials have said that until now, anyone…
A Boston concert may be missed but no one was hurt shortly after noon Monday when a car and pickup truck collided on Wiscasset's Route 1, authorities and the drivers said at the scene.
…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
Two years ago, Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset was a shadow of its former flagship self. One person, Administrator Mark Westrum, was trying to do almost everything, from placing inmates in…
Wiscasset Assistant Fire Chief Nick Merry was taking a nap and wife Jessica was driving him and their 10-month-old son Nicholas home Sunday night after a long day at the beach. Nick woke up, saw a…
On Saturday, June 30 the Edgecomb Fire Department held its fifth annual pancake breakfast as a joint effort with Edgecomb Community Church. Proceeds were divided between the two organizations. …
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld an earlier ruling that Wawenock Block LLC and three other residential and commercial property companies the Ralph Doering family owns in downtown…
Wiscasset Public Safety Advisory Council
Newly elected Wiscasset selectman Kimberly Andersson attended the first part of Tuesday’s Public Safety Advisory Committee meeting to ask the panel about the possible outsourcing of ambulance…
Dresden Selectmen
Dresden selectmen on Monday unanimously appointed Steve Lilly fire chief and Michael Nylen assistant fire chief. They also appointed former selectmen Dale Hinote to the Marijuana Business…
Lincoln County Courts
The following information on closed cases for May was provided by the Lincoln County Clerk. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences were served at Two Bridges Regional…
UPDATE: Jefferson Fire and Rescue was having a fundraiser at Jefferson Scoop when Lincoln County Communications called the agency out to a plane crash near Augusta Road about 5 p.m. Saturday, Fire…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies arrested Allan F. Wigglesworth, 34, of Thomaston, following a shooting reported on Church Street in Southport at 10:48 p.m. on June 21. Wigglesworth was charged…
Wiscasset Police Department
Jeff Lange, Wiscasset's police chief since 2016, will retire from Maine law enforcement July 26, his last full-time day as full-time chief. In an email to Town Manager Marian Anderson June 13,…
Wiscasset Town Manager Marian Anderson released the following statement via email Wednesday afternoon:
"It is always difficult to announce the resignation of a trusted, valued member of…
Dresden Selectmen
A number of firefighters and local residents came to the June 11 DreAden selectmen’s meeting to voice their concerns over the tensions between the department and the select board.
“Changes…
The Westport Island selectmen's meeting on Monday, June 11, was the setting for a surprise celebration for newly retired fire chief Robert “Bob” Mooney.
Believing he needed to attend the…
