AUGUSTA — Retired state workers and teachers will get up to $600 each in September when the Maine Public Employees Retirement System distributes payments that are designed to replace annual cost-of-living increases that were frozen by the Legislature last year.

The residents are concerned that, in some instances, annual maintenance fees charged to those who cross the railroad on private roads could jump from $75 a year to $1,500. Others who were not paying a fee were sent letters telling them to now pay $490 a year.

FAYETTE — Meredith Pepper had just put a movie in for her three children to watch Thursday afternoon when she heard a loud boom.

AUGUSTA — City workers tore down bleachers while a mason lined up bricks for new ticket booths Friday at Cony High School’s Alumni Field, part of efforts to spruce up the stadium before the fall football season.