Democrats and schools offer A-F grading systems to compete with Gov. Paul LePage’s controversial rankings; a bill to ban food stamp purchases of junk food gets a narrow ought-not-to-pass committee vote; Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability looks into the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention scandal; and two long-shot bills that would impede access to abortion in Maine are scheduled to be heard by a legislative committee on Friday.

The Rev. Jack Dickinson, Maine’s youngest priest and the parochial vicar at Corpus Christi, has been assigned to a new location after two years in the Waterville-area parish.