Waterville and Winslow will switch from the 2nd Congressional District to the 1st under a compromise plan overwhelmingly approved recently. Some officials are concerned whether Waterville will continue to have a federal office.

NEW YORK — The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper — the Occupied Wall Street Journal — and a makeshift hospital.

NORRIDGEWOCK — Town planners are facing another retroactive permitting process, this time for a convenience store and gas station on the north end of the U.S. Route 201A bridge.

PORTLAND — Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell said Sunday that the Palestinians’ bid to gain membership in the United Nations will worsen the prospects for peace with Israel.

AUGUSTA — Economic forecaster Laurie Lachance suggested members of the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta could improve life for themselves and others in Maine by volunteering to work with youngsters and teens and various civic groups, including historic preservation efforts.