CRIME & SAFETY
Rockland man grieves, Two Bridges, state review his brother’s death in Wiscasset jail
A man being held at Two Bridges Regional Jail has hung himself, in the third suicide since Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties opened the facility on Wiscasset’s Route One in 2006, authorities told Wiscasset Newspaper. TBRJ is doing an internal investigation “as (is) normal procedure for any critical incident we have in the jail,” Col. James Bailey, TBRJ’s correctional administrator, said via email April 25.
UPDATE: Young family loses belongings, dog in Searsmont fire
SEARSMONT — A community is helping a family recover from a devastating fire that took the life of their dog on Sunday night, April 21. Jennifer Strazzulla, a staff member of Hope School and Lincolnville Central School, her husband, Chris, and their two young sons lost all their belongings in the fire, which consumed the entire two-story structure that sat along a single-lane dirt road parallel to Route 173, not far from the Lincolnville town line.
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