J. Craig Anderson

As work continues on a new long-range facilities master plan, the local school district has abandoned the idea of closing the aging Harpswell Community School and will focus on developing a plan to renovate it.

The Rev. Allison Smith describes her arrest not as a moment of panic, but of calm. "I felt like I was part of this wider community of faith and prayer and solidarity, and so I felt a great deal of peace … in the sense that I could risk arrest and be assured that I would be safe on many levels," said Smith, of Cundy's Harbor. "Tragically, that is not the experience of my neighbors and the families that have lost people."

About 50 students from Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham joined a youth protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that drew hundreds of participants on Monday in Bath.