LEEDS — A site used for scrap metal recovery processing until the mid 1980s will be investigated and potentially cleaned up under the auspices of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

SOUTH CHINA — Gov. Paul LePage will speak about domestic violence and bullying at 1 p.m. today at Erskine Academy.

READFIELD — The town’s main thoroughfare will be closed for three days next week — and students will get a pass for being late to school — as repairs at the Readfield Depot railroad crossing are made.

AUGUSTA — A state worker was convicted Tuesday of stealing workers’ compensation benefits during a six-month period last year.

The Winthrop school budget got a 535-367 thumbs-up from voters on Tuesday, ending a series of meetings that occasionally turned rancorous as school board members and voters tried to come up with an acceptable bottom line.