Buoyed by the success of food and drink advertising campaigns such as “Got Milk?,” the state Lobster Advisory Council wants Maine’s lobster industry to spend $3 million boost sales and market prices.

INDIAN ISLAND — Bill Townsend is an old man now, at 84, but steady enough on his feet to walk down the muddy bank of the Penobscot River and watch as excavators smashed the defunct concrete fishway of the Great Works Dam.

SKOWHEGAN — Residents in early voting at Monday’s annual Town Meeting agreed to spend $1,078,945 for the Police Department, $716,151 for the Fire Department, $796,204 for solid waste management, $884,00 for debt retirement, and a total of $1.25 million for summer roads, winter roads and vehicle maintenance.

WILTON — Voters today will pick from three candidates running for selectman in a special election. They are competing to fill the two years remaining of the term of Paul Gooch, who is stepping down early to move to Wells.

VASSALBORO — Residents at the annual Town Meeting approved several budget items Monday night, including the expenditure of $36,800 for police and animal control, and more than $115,000 for the Fire Department.

CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak’s health worsened Monday, with doctors twice having to use a defibrillator on the imprisoned former leader, adding to the tumult in Egypt before this weekend’s runoff election for president.