It was a slightly chilly night on Nov. 6, with a light rain that kept many people snug inside their homes.
But on the Boothbay Common, lights and activity were everywhere as smoke poured…
Police, Fire and Courts
An Edgecomb woman remained hospitalized Tuesday at a Lewiston hospital after the car she was driving on Wiscasset’s Gardiner Road on Nov. 8 crossed the center line, struck a ditch, went airborne,…
The property manager for the homeowners association that uses an Edgecomb pool house hopes to get repairs under way as soon as possible for the building damaged in a Nov. 3 fire. Jeff Martin said…
A malfunction in a pool heater is the probable cause of a Nov. 4 fire that damaged a pool house at Sheepcot Harbour Village & Resort, Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter said Tuesday night.
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From midnight Saturday night through 8 p.m. Sunday night, Lincoln County Communications Center received at least 330 calls; no one was injured in the motor vehicle accidents and other incidents,…
Boothbay to Belfast: heavy, wet snow with strong winds; power out some areas
Heavy wet snow is taking down trees and power lines, sending cars into ditches and creating big headaches for local police, firefighters, public works crews and tow truck drivers, who are all over…
The driver in a rollover accident on Wiscasset’s Foye Road on Saturday received apparent minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Lincoln County…
A water heater’s elements failed, reportedly causing a brief fire at a Hooper Street, Wiscasset home Wednesday night, Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry said.
The occupants of the home at 33…
A Wiscasset woman was one of the three people hurt in a three-car accident on Route 1 in Edgecomb on Oct. 25, authorities said.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Major Ken Mason on Oct. 27 named the…
One Wiscasset fire truck and a crew of five Wiscasset firefighters were at the Dresden fire station Sunday night, Oct. 26, while Dresden firefighters remained at a Richmond fire scene, Wiscasset…
Three people were taken to hospitals with apparent minor injuries Saturday after a three-car accident on Edgecomb’s Route 1, Lincoln County Sheriff’s officers said at the scene.
The accident…
Superior Court
An Alna woman has been charged with felony domestic violence assault after she allegedly struck a four-year-old child with a toy train.
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No one was hurt when a car and a Regional School Unit 12 school bus collided at the bottom of Alna’s Head Tide Hill on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
One student was on the bus at the…
Edgecomb Fire Chief Roy Potter was working at the scene of a two-vehicle crash at routes 1 and 27 on Tuesday night, when he heard tires screech. He looked to see a car that had stopped two feet…
A Wiscasset man has been charged with harassment after he was alleged to have sent a nude photo of himself to a Boothbay Harbor teen.
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At least one Susan Collins, U.S. Senate campaign sign was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, probably overnight Sunday into Monday, Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline said Oct. 14.
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An 86-year-old Dresden man was found with only minor injuries after being missing in woods off Gardiner Road for about two hours on Oct. 13, a Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy said.
State and…
A Jefferson man walked away from an early morning rollover on Newcastle’s North Newcastle Road Sunday, authorities said.
Romeo Geroux, 44, was driving northbound in a 2000, four-door Saturn…
Regina Bowman, 41, of Waldoboro, has been arrested and charged with Class B cocaine trafficking.
For the past two months, agents from the the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Mid-Coast…
A Yarmouth man has been charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly choked a woman in Newcastle.
Scott McCatherin, 50, of…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
A routine search at Two Bridges Regional Jail turned up some prison contraband.
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office reported that on…
A Gardiner man has died from injuries he got when the motorcycle he was riding in Whitefield Sunday night crashed into a deer and into another motorcycle his wife was riding, the Lincoln County…
Two transported to Miles Memorial Hospital
WARREN — A head-on crash in Warren Monday afternoon killed one woman and sent two others to a local hospital.
According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred just before 3…
A motorcyclist was seriously injured in Whitefield Sunday night when he tried to miss a deer, but struck it and his wife’s motorcycle, authorities said.
Neither Kenneth Black, 50, nor his…
A Bristol man was arrested Sept. 20 by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office on a slew of charges, including assault and violating the conditions of his release.
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An Indiana man has been arrested on a warrant from Lincoln County alleging he sexually exploited a minor from Dresden.
Danny Douglas,…
There is a long-standing legal maxim that we only have “one bite of the apple,” meaning that for any given legal matter, we usually have only one opportunity to come before a court and have our…
A Wiscasset woman has pleaded not guilty to a pair of charges alleging she put the lives of two people, a child and a dependent, in danger.
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Lincoln County Grand Jury
A Wiscasset man has been indicted with a Class A crime following a July arrest.
Nathan Brewer, 27, of Wiscasset was originally…
A Wiscasset police cruiser and another vehicle were towed with flattened tires but no other damage on Route 1 in Nobleboro early Sept. 21, following a chase that started with an attempted traffic…
Lincoln County Grand Jury
A Damariscotta woman has been indicted on six counts stemming from an incident in which she allegedly fought with police.
Tammy Elliot…
Lincoln County Grand Jury
A trio of women, who were being held at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, have been indicted by the Lincoln County Grand Jury on charges claiming they trafficked…
The Damariscotta Fire Department only needed a half-an-hour to knock down a small attic fire at Coves Edge in Damariscotta.
Responding…
A bedroom of a Lowelltown Road, Wiscasset, home sustained minor smoke damage for an unknown reason early Sept. 19, Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry said.
Wiscasset and Alna firefighters went…
The Lincoln County Grand Jury has indicted a Wiscasset man on two counts of drug charges and one count that he violated his bail.
Chad…
Lincoln County Grand Jury
A Bremen man has been indicted by the Lincoln County Grand Jury with possession of sexually explicit materials involving children under the age of 12.
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Lincoln County Grand Jury
The Lincoln County Grand Jury has met to indict individuals on criminal charges. Below are the individuals who have been indicted by the Grand Jury in September.
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Following a search on his computer, Newcastle artist Robert Ransley has been indicted with 20 counts of possession of child pornography by the Lincoln County Grand Jury…
Lincoln County Grand Jury
The Lincoln County Grand Jury has indicted a 21-year-old with one felony following the deaths of two area teenagers.
William Gerardi,…
Lincoln County Grand Jury
A Newcastle man has been indicted by the Lincoln County Grand Jury on an aggravated assault charge stemming from an…
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CAMDEN — Camden Police Chief Randy Gagne said soon after 3 a.m. Sept. 16, that Robert Beerman, 34, of Camden, had apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the Rite Aid Pharmacy on…
The tenacity of a victim and a Boothbay Harbor Police officer led to the indictment last week of a Boothbay Harbor man who allegedly swindled thousands of dollars from his victims.
Michael…
A Newcastle woman who allegedly spat on cars, ripped up potted plants outside of grocery store and fought a police officer has been arrested by the Damariscotta Police…
One person was hurt and several agencies responded Sept. 14 when two vehicles crashed on Westport Island’s Route 144, near Ridge Road. The driver of a southbound, 2002 Mercury Villager van…
Maureen Cianci was serving as a relief worker for survivors of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina when Hurricane Ike struck in 2008. In its aftermath, she found a kitten in a Bogalusa, Louisiana swamp. It…
A passenger in each car was hurt when two cars collided in front of the Sea Basket on Route 1 in Wiscasset Wednesday afternoon.
The crash shut down both northbound and southbound Route 1…
The Wiscasset Police Department recorded the following incidents in its log for Aug. 31-Sept. 7, including 55 property checks among other services:
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The Lincoln County Fire Chiefs Association presented its annual awards in Bristol on Saturday, Aug. 20.
The Officer of the Year Award was presented to Lieutenant Alex Arsenault of the…
