Augusta
Thursday
At 4:37 p.m., there was a shoplifting complaint at a Cony Street store.
5:58 p.m., there was a hit-and-run accident on Xavier Loop.
6:32 p.m., there was a report of disorderly conduct on Crosby Street Place.

WINDSOR — Three men are vying for two seats on the Windsor Board of Selectmen.

GARDINER — City officials will celebrate completing the second phase of the waterfront project as a tipping point in the city’s redevelopment drive after they meet with the contractor Friday.

AUGUSTA — A subsidiary of a Colorado-based company has agreed to buy the assets of the firm planning to build a natural gas pipeline in central Maine.

SKOWHEGAN — A man who had been out of jail for three days was arrested again Friday on charges that he broke into a couple’s home while they slept and stole more than $10,000 in diamond jewelry.

Among the more than $8 million in grants that the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation handed out last year was $250,000 to the Somerset Economic Development Corp.

Tracey Neild of Waldoboro was pleased to learn Friday that a judge had awarded her $3.7 million in damages for what she suffered when her throat was slashed and her friend was killed in an attack in 2009.

VASSALBORO — Residents will consider town and school budgets Monday that propose to increase the taxes by $1 per $1,000 of property valuation.