LITCHFIELD — Selectmen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to consider signing a contract for another year with Gardiner Ambulance Service and to hear a report on the status of local lakes and ponds.

Mike Minkowsky, Gardiner fire and rescue chief, recently presented the proposed Gardiner Ambulance Service 2013 contract for $16,262, plus the fiscal 2012 write-offs of $10,462.

Litchfield Rescue responds to emergencies in town; Gardiner Ambulance provides transport to hospitals.

Town Manager Mike Byron said a Gardiner Ambulance employee and Trudy Lamoreau, office manager and deputy clerk in Litchfield, will coordinate efforts to collect payments after the Gardiner Ambulance’s collection agency declares the bills uncollectible.

Bill Monagle, director of the Cobbossee Watershed District, is scheduled to update selectmen on the conditions in the lakes, ponds and streams.

Burn permits issued once again

AUGUSTA — Fire stations were issuing burn permits again this weekend — some for the first time in almost two weeks.

Sunday was rated as a Class 2 day, meaning the fire danger was moderate.

About a half dozen burn permits were issued by Augusta firefighters, and Winthrop residents also obtained burn permits in their town.

The Maine Forest Service issues daily reports on the “Predicted Class Day and Fire Danger” in seven zones throughout the state.

Persistent dry conditions recently had pushed the ratings into Class 4 or very high fire danger.

Permits are not issued on days when the rating is Class 3 or above.

Compiled from staff reports