The blood drive Friday at the Augusta Civic Center is one of several that the American Red Cross is sponsoring this week around the state, including one in Belgrade.

The investigation into $438,000 in missing excise tax money has already put the town $40,000 over budget.

Wine may be sold in Cambridge only on Sundays, while organizers of a Norridgewock music festival had to cancel plans for a beer garden.

Fire destroyed Here’s the Scoop two years ago; then a snowmobile accident delayed Scott and Vicki Stanchfield’s plans to reopen.