Waldo County News

Medway businessman James B. Lee has been placed under house arrest for violating bail while awaiting trial for manslaughter.

BROOKS : Brooks locals will participate in the Waldo County Fiddlers and Contraband Showcase.

SEARSPORT : A team of area firefighters training to work in some close quarters will reportedly be the first of its kind in the county.

Below are final results for each of the seven questions, listed by town. Question 1: People's veto.

3 to consider seven state questions, five of them the result of citizen initiatives, with the remaining two a transportation bond and a constitutional amendment.

BELFAST : On a beautiful fall day, more than 140 participants walked 2.3 miles across Belfast to raise money to benefit the Waldo County General Hospital Oncology Patient Assistance Fund and the Mammography Fund.

BELFAST : Wings of Love will be giving out toys for needy children. This is to help needy children of Waldo County have presents under the tree at Christmas.

A year has passed since an armed gunman allegedly terrified local schoolchildren when he stormed into their fifth-grade classroom last Halloween and held them hostage, and the accused has yet to be tried on the resulting charges.

NORTHPORT : A Northport woman who crashed her car Oct. 26 was arrested after she allegedly left the vehicle and obtained a ride home.

BELFAST : The Waldo County YMCA offers the annual HARVEST LUNCHEON for seniors in our community every year as a Thanksgiving celebration.

BELFAST : A Waldoboro man was arrested on charges of aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs and unlawful sexual touching after he allegedly provided marijuana to a minor during a visit to an apartment complex in Belfast.

BELFAST : Waldo County has always been a fiscally conservative county. Each yearly budget has been voted on by succeeding budget committee members, selectmen or city councilors to establish our yearly budget.

The neighborhood's unofficial candy man, Paul Yeaton, is organizing a candy drive for the second year running.

BELFAST : The Waldo County YMCA sponsored a trip to Scotland in October 2009. There were thirty-four participants who enjoyed the trip to see many of Scotlanda s treasures.

WALDO COUNTY : The Waldo County Amateur Radio Emergency Services/ Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service group will participatr in a statewide exercise Thursday, Oct.

BELFAST : The following divorces were recorded in Fifth District Court in Belfast in September.

FREEDOM : Freedom residents got an outside opinion of the town's tax situation Oct.

BELFAST : A man who was apparently passing through Belfast the night of Oct. 21 ended his visit to the city at the Waldo County Jail and now faces a drug trafficking charge.

UNITY : Police say a Milo man will be charged after flipping his vehicle Oct. 19 on Albion Road and admitting to police he did not have a driver's license.

BELFAST : The 2009 documentary "The Money Fix" will be screened Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. in the Abbott Room of Belfast Free Library, 106 High St.