The money covers legal costs incurred by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine in its successful challenge of a city ordinance restricting people from panhandling on street medians.

Some are quick to blame bullying in the suicide of Gavin Clark, 14, of Alna; others point to a ‘big combination of things.’

The locater ‘ping’ will go silent about two weeks after searchers with special equipment begin sweeping for the device, and there’s no guarantee that it’s even retrievable.

Mitchell Kuflik of Brooklyn, New York graduated from the Castine-based school in 2011, the academy’s president, Bill Brennan said.

That leaves the death toll at 33, including four Maine mariners, as the focus shifts to finding the wreckage and the voyage data recorder 15,000 feet below the surface.

The City Council will not appeal a federal court’s decision striking down a controversial ordinance enacted in 2013.

The agency’s vice chairwoman says the device will give investigators a record of the ship’s movements and transmissions during the 12 hours before it sank in Hurricane Joaquin.