On Aug. 1, Duke, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department’s German shepherd patrol dog retired after seven years of service, and now the hunt is on for a new K-9 team. Duke, 8, is struggling with…
Police, Fire and Courts
On July 30, 1984, Det. Sgt. Don Davey was responding to an emergency call in Nobleboro. Davey was rounding a curve and collided with a tractor trailer. Both men died in the accident. On Aug. 4,…
Alna Volunteer Fire Department President and longtime First Congregational Church of Wiscasset member Beth Whitney hoped she would not cry while singing the hymn “The Eternal Father” solo in…
Portland, Maine. The Maine Judicial Branch released its Revised COVID-19 Phased Management Plan (“Plan”).
Face coverings: The revisions include updated guidance from the CDC and requires…
The Maine Marine Patrol is continuing to conduct targeted patrols in southern Maine after a…
shark yet to be caught or seen again
7/28, 1:30 p.m. Update: Officials identified the shark as a great white shark during a noon press conference in Augusta.
The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR)…
Boothbay Harbor Police Department made four arrests between June 29 and July 20.
On July 2, Sgt. Patrick Higgins arrested Mark DiPhillippo, 53, of Biddeford for operating under the…
For seven years, Duke, a patrol and drug search dog, has taken a bite out of crime in Lincoln County. But those days are numbered. The 8-year-old German Shepherd is struggling with spinal and bone…
On July 8, Wiscasset Police Department responded to a physical altercation between two men at the Clipper Mart in…
Recent national data has shown a strong correlation between greater law enforcement presence and reduction in traffic accidents and crime, Chief Deputy Rand Maker of Lincoln County Sheriff’s…
There is another term besides COVID-19 and coronavirus describing the deadly pandemic infective agent. Maine Emergency Medical Service dispatchers are using positive U-21 and negative U-21 in…
Boothbay Harbor Police Department made four arrests between May 30 and June 28.
On June 3, Officer Doug Snyder arrested Jonathan Wright, 37, of Boothbay Harbor for domestic violence assault…
If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, Grace Moclair would have started a summer internship at Disney World last month. Instead, the 20-year-old, Rhode Island-raised Wiscasset woman was working at…
A series of factors has culminated with Two Bridges Jail Authority approving a 2020-21 budget eliminating 15 jobs. The cuts will occur in two phases with the first in mid-July and the…
In a split decision June 16, Lincoln County commissioners approved four new SUVs for the sheriff’s department. Two weeks earlier, commissioners received five sealed bids from Maine dealerships for…
UPDATED: Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett was able to reply at length Monday to Wiscasset Newspaper’s request for comment after the demonstration. Here…
Lincoln County commissioners received five sealed bids from Maine dealerships June 2 for buying three new police SUVs. Newcastle Chrysler of Newcastle was the low bidder, with $28,589 for each of…
About 11:08 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, Wiscasset Police Department was dispatched…
AUGUSTA — The Maine criminal justice community, which includes the Maine Chiefs of Police Association, the Maine Sheriffs…
A Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency search team was a real lifesaver May 27 for an 82-year-old East Boothbay woman. Lincoln County Communications received an emergency call around 11 a.m…
The Maine Judicial Branch announced May 27 the release of the State of Maine Judicial Branch COVID-19 Phased Management Plan. The plan creates a five-phased process for reopening Maine Courts and…
On May 18, Lincoln County Courthouse’s doors opened to the Registries of Deeds and Probate for people who made appointments. The courts are open Mondays,…
On Thursday, May 14 at 1:10 p.m., Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Calls Hill Road in Dresden for a report of a stolen gun. The gun was allegedly stolen by a…
UPDATE: From Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland: Maine’s Amber Alert has been canceled. The missing 3-year-old was located safe a short time ago. Additional…
The State Police Computer Crimes Unit, working with Homeland Security, has charged two men this week with possessing child pornography. The arrests took place in Wiscasset and China…
Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s conviction of Shawna Gatto in the murder of Kendall Chick, 4, of Wiscasset in 2017.
The state’s ruling, available at courts.…
A Boothbay man was hurt May 5 in a single-vehicle accident on Route 27. Larry Smith, 77, was traveling south in Boothbay around 3 p.m. when a medical event resulted in his 2019 white Nissan pickup…
COVID-19 aka the coronavirus has certainly upended our way of life and will likely continue to do so for some time to come. It is hard to keep up with information concerning the virus as new data…
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) has announced Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett as the recipient of the 2020…
Meeting via teleconference on Monday evening, April 6, Edgecomb selectmen focused on”issues of immediate concern in maintaining town operations during this time.”
Fire Chief Roy Potter said…
Longtime Boothbay Harbor Police Department administrative assistant Maureen Smith has retired and Chief Bob Hasch thanked her and posted “best wishes on your next adventure” on the department’s…
On Wednesday, March 25, Lincoln County EMA Emergency Operations Center issued a request for new, unused Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to assist frontline Emergency Medical, fire department,…
Boothbay selectmen were underwhelmed by a proposed Boothbay Region Pandemic Response Plan March 11, but gave it conditional approval anyway. Southport and Boothbay Harbor select boards had…
Lincoln County courts
A Lincoln County grand jury rose March 11 with an indictment charging an Augusta woman with trafficking a drug the charge claims contributed to a death.
The single-count indictment…
Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett is all for reforming the criminal justice system, but he’s against a couple of proposals working their way through the Maine Legislature.
Brackett…
Lincoln County courts
Corey H. Ater, 32, of Phippsburg, charges of violating protection from abuse order and violating condition of release in Wiscasset, dismissed.
Olivia T. Coniam, 24, of Alna, charge of…
A Sunny Acres Lane home in Boothbay is a total loss following a March 5 fire. Boothbay firefighters were joined by six other departments in battling the fire which began around midnight at the…
The 35-foot patrol vessel Monitor caught fire Monday morning, Feb. 24 while at the dock at Department of Marine Resources’ Boothbay Harbor facility, DMR spokesman Jeff…
A criminal case against lawyer Jonathan Hull, 73, of Newcastle could move closer to its end Feb. 28 with a conference at Lincoln County Courthouse. Assistant District Attorney A.J. Chalifour said…
MOOSEHEAD LAKE – A Wiscasset man is dead Feb. 23 following a fatal snowmobile crash on Moosehead Lake. Gregory Lemar, age 59, of Wiscasset, was operating a late model Arctic Cat 800 snowmobile…
Lincoln County courts
The Lincoln County court clerk’s office provided this information on recently closed cases:
Gwendolyn Akin, 69, of Bristol, charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer in…
Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 470 calls for service for the period of Feb. 4 through Feb. 19. Year to date, LCSO has…
Lincoln County Courts
The following information was provided by the Lincoln County Clerk of Courts. Unless otherwise noted, all sentences are served at Two Bridges Regional Jail.
Jeremiah Lucas, 22, of Edgecomb…
Lincoln County Commissioners
Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Casey Stevens on Feb. 4 discussed the importance of moving toward a drone program for search and rescue. He said the drone could detect body heat or…
Lincoln County Courts
Konstantinos Rigas, 31, of Boothbay Harbor was sentenced Feb. 3 for a series of convictions stemming from a May 15 police standoff in which Rigas threatened a woman with a bayonet and held police…
AOS 98
Boothbay Region High and Elementary, Southport and Georgetown central and Edgecomb Eddy schools underwent standard security measures after threats were made to over a dozen Maine schools.…
Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to 261 calls for service for the period of Jan. 21 and Jan. 28. Year to date, LCSO has responded…
WARREN — A 16-year-old Boothbay resident has been hospitalized with serious injuries following a two vehicle car crash in Warren Saturday night.
The juvenile, who was not identified…
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is investigating several motor vehicle burglaries on Page Avenue in Wiscasset Friday night or early Saturday.
A White Chevrolet 1500 was seen in the…
AOS 98
Voters of Southport, Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay, Edgecomb and Georgetown passed the Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 budget Jan. 23. Though not the shortest meeting ever, the 15-…
