FAIRFIELD — A public hearing will be held on a proposed natural gas pipeline project at the Fairfield Town Council meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the Fairfield Community Center.

Fairfield Town Manager Joshua Reny said Kennebec Valley Gas Company has been invited to make a presentation and answer residents’ questions about its proposed project.

Reny said the council will decide Wednesday whether to approve a warrant for a special December town meeting at which residents would decide whether to support tax increment financing for the company. Governments typically use tax increment financing to publicly finance structural improvements within an area.

Reny said a special town meeting requires a minimum of 50 registered voters.

Deer hunter shot in Sebago dies

SEBAGO — The Maine Warden Service on Sunday was investigating the fatal shooting of a hunter a day earlier.

Wardens said Peter Kolofsky, 46, of Sebago, was wearing hunter orange when he was shot Saturday afternoon. He died at the scene.

Officials identify the person who shot Kolofsky as William Briggs, 61, of Windham. Both men were deer hunting in Sebago, but they were not hunting in the same parties.

Wardens were investigating at the scene Sunday. No summonses or charges have been filed.

Saturday’s shooting came a day after two other, separate hunting-related shootings in Maine. A New Hampshire man was in critical condition after being shot in the stomach in Casco. And in Oxford, a hunter was shot once in the lower leg by a friend.

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Kolofsky was the first hunting fatality in the Maine woods since 2008, when a man who was deer hunting in Beaver Cove died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Rights Commission chooses director

AUGUSTA — The Maine Human Rights Commission is getting a new executive director.

Amy Sneirson’s first day on the job will be Jan. 3. She replaces Patricia Ryan, who retired in June after 32 years at the helm.

Sneirson is a lawyer who has worked at the Maine Center of Deafness since 2006.

From staff and wire reports