If approved, Nicholas Livesay will head the agency that oversees development in Maine’s 10 million-acre Unorganized Territory.

EAST MADISON — Inmates began arriving at the Somerset County Jail from Franklin County this week marking the end of a nearly four-month-long battle between state corrections officials and local authorities over the cost to house inmates from other counties.

AUGUSTA — A Miles for Mills car/bike cruise — featuring custom classic cars, muscle cars, modern vehicles and motorcycles — is scheduled Sunday at the VA Maine Healthcare Systems-Togus.

Citing a lack of patients, a small community hospital in Lincoln County is expected to replace its emergency room with an urgent-care center and eliminate other services.

At 4:54 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.