City police have received at least half a dozen reports about Ku Klux Klan fliers being left in driveways, coming about two months after similar reports in Gardiner, Augusta and Freeport.

Mitchell, a former U.S. senator, peacemaker, author and Waterville native, will speak with Morning Sentinel reporter Amy Calder from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday on stage at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College.

City officials postponed a discussion of the risks and benefits of such a plan until an executive session next week.

The preliminary proposed city budget would increase taxes by $2.17 per $1,000, but Mayor Nick Isgro warns in his budget message that “increasing the tax burden at the current time is not an outcome that we can accept.”

The bridge over Messalonskee Stream near Waterville Senior High School will be closed to vehicles for about three months starting in June as workers take it down, inspect it and renovate its surface and supports.