More than 500 Mainers are on a waiting list for mental health services with an average wait of two months, apparently in violation of a long-standing consent decree.

Six college students from around the country will bicycle into Waterville Monday and spend the week spreading awareness about climate change and the dangers of tar sands and fossil fuel use.

Despite grant funding approval and more than $48,000 in local contributions to help fund opening Hales Pond to public access, David and Rebecca Manter remain firmly on their 28-acre Young Road property, caught in a catch-22.

John Roy and Pati Redeagle have erected a fence between their home and the one next door, from which Ayla Reynolds disappeared in December 2011, but it doesn’t blot out memories of the missing toddler.