WALDOBORO— A Waldoboro small business owner was arrested Monday morning after 21 pounds of marijuana were found in his vehicle last week, according to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. Christopher Luce, 24, is charged with Trafficking Marijuana and Violation of Probation. 

MDEA Supervisor James Pease said agents, along with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department and Waldoboro Police, have been looking in recent months into Luce who was suspected of selling large amounts of marijuana from his house and business. Luce operates the Shoe Box in Waldoboro, a shoe store and head shop.

Pease said agents received information last week that Luce was expected to be in possession of a large amount of marijuana. The agents, along with the Maine Warden Service, deputies and Waldoboro Police began surveillance of him. 

Asia Derosby, Gavin Day and Corey Rattleff joined fellow Woolwich Central School students at the boat launching.by John Maguire
Coastal Journal staff

WOOLWICH— Seventh and 8th grade students from the Woolwich Central School who took part in this year's Discovery Boat Building program at the Maine Maritime Museum launched the wooden skiffs they made over the school year behind the Woolwich Fire Department on Nequasset Brook Tuesday, June 14. Program trustees, the instructor, sponsors, parents, teachers and students from the entire school gathered on the banks of the river at 9:30 a.m. to view the launch. Through a cloud of cannon smoke and the raucous cheering of the crowd, the student boat builders rowed out into the river, smiling proudly.

Students from the South Bristol school will launch their boats on Friday, June 17, according to program trustee Steve Caulfield. 

Gov. Paul LePage says he’ll need to examine ‘the little print’ in the $6.1 billion Appropriations plan.

by Susan M. Cover
MaineToday Media State House Writer

AUGUSTA — The proposed state budget to be considered by the House and Senate next week calls for tax cuts, major reforms to the state pension system and some of the welfare reforms that Gov. Paul LePage advocated.

The $6.1 billion, two-year plan that earned unanimous approval from the Legislature’s 13-member Appropriations Committee late Thursday night represents a series of compromises designed to win the two-thirds support it needs in the House and Senate.

The committee’s House chairman, Rep. Patrick Flood, R-Winthrop, said Democrats and Republicans worked to find money to avoid some cuts to human services. On the final night of negotiations, Flood presented an amendment offering $20 million in future revenue from wholesale liquor sales to help prevent any budget gap.

ROCKLAND— Four men from Knox and Lincoln counties face drug charges, stemming from a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency sting operation last month that broke up a heroin and prescription drug distribution ring in Knox County. According to the MDEA, Michel D’Angelo, 31, of Acton and Waldoboro, Justin Myrick, 22, of Owls Head and Aaron Dennison, 24, of South Thomaston were arrested for trafficking Oxycodone. Mathew Catalano, 28, of Rockland was arrested for trafficking heroin.

 James Pease, MDEA Supervisor of the Mid Coast District Task Force Office said during this four-month investigation, drug agents , Rockland Police, Knox County deputies and State Police have been looking into the importation of heroin and Oxycodone, a prescription narcotic, into the Rockland area.