Nearly a year after residents purchased the Deer Ridge Mobile Home Park, leaders of the new organization said they are learning how to enforce the rules.

Following a brutal winter last season, plows have yet to deal with any snow, and sand and salt supplies are healthy — for now.

An average of 45 species per year have been spotted since the Augusta bird count began in 1970.

Advocates for alewives’ return say restoring the run of fish won’t benefit just alewives, but also a whole range of other species that feed on them and the larger ecosystem they live in.

The once-a-month service collects only a limited variety of materials, and the proposal would expand rubbish pickup to 52 weeks a year.

The warming center has moved from its former downtown location to St. Mark’s Parish Hall on Pleasant Street.

The old walls were removed this summer because many of the cedar logs in them were rotten.

Councilors on Thursday were asked not to spend $50,000 to repair recycling truck.