Travis Fifield News Today

The just-formed Infrastructure Rebuilding and Resilience Commission plans to travel around the state to hear from storm-ravaged communities to see how the state can help those whose needs do not fit neatly into federal disaster relief categories.

STONINGTON — Stonington will hold its presidential primary and local election on Tuesday, March 5, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the second floor of the town office.

After back-to-back storms in January, the devastation felt by Maine’s lobster industry was an alarming warning that climate change is happening so fast, and with such seemingly cruel precision, that the scale of recovery may need to be greater than anyone had realized.

ELLSWORTH — Traya Huff and Bonnie Tai of Bar Harbor and Steve Schley of Sorrento are the newest members of the Maine Community Foundation’s Hancock County Grantmaking Committee.

All lobster and Jonah crab fishermen in federal waters will soon need electronic tracking devices on their vessels while fishing there.