AUGUSTA — Middle school sports, elementary band, a high school administrator, enough buses to pick up all elementary students at the same time, and education technicians who help special education students get jobs and integrate into society after high school are among the potential cuts to help slash $1 million from the school budget.

AUGUSTA — Residents in the city’s Ward 4, left without a polling place now that St. Andrew Church is for sale, may be voting in the June primaries at the Augusta Civic Center even as Celtic dancers and their fans converge there.

AUGUSTA — Residents and some city councilors fear a zoning change proposed to make way for a businessman’s plans to process live mussels and breed tropical fish off Route 17 could blemish two-thirds of the city’s neighborhoods.

AUGUSTA — A proposal to breed tropical fish and process live imported mussels has the city considering creating a new zoning district on part of Eastern Avenue.

AUGUSTA — A proposal to help heat Cony High School and Capital Area Technical Center with wood pellets and the sun could save $600,000 over the next nine years, and even more than that in the years beyond that, officials of an alternative energy company say.

AUGUSTA — The city’s schools are slated to receive about $710,000 less in state education funding than anticipated in the proposed school budget.

AUGUSTA — They wear the uniform proudly, these old Marines.