EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Consolidation between schools here and ones in the Millinocket school district has been a topic of discussion for years. Now with Schenck High School needing slightly more than $2 million in repairs, the issue is once again in the public eye.

This week school leaders in town will once again decide whether to ask voters to back a bond. East Millinocket school superintendent Quenten Clark says roughly $2.1 million is necessary to fix the roof at the high school as well as fix the gymnasium floor at Schenck and make the building more accessible for children with disabilities.

"I wouldn't say that this particular stuff that they're asking voters to vote on is a wish list," Clark said in an interview with NEWS CENTER in early March,  "keeping a roof intact if you're going to keep a school here is pretty fundamental to the thing so I don't believe that the current proposal is a wish list at all."

BROWNVILLE, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Police officers and game wardens carry guns in Maine. Now the question is should forest rangers be allowed to as well. 

A bill being considered in Augusta would lift long-standing restrictions on rangers having firearms while on duty. Some officials with the Maine Forest Service say they would feel safer if they were armed while patrolling the woods.

Gary Cook is one ranger whose been working in Maine for decades. He says he's responded to some situations in the woods that were hair raising. In one case he says a suspect pulled a gun on him and a state trooper.

"There's only two groups of people in Maine that can't possess a firearm by law...and that's felons and forest rangers. To me that's unacceptable," he said.

If passed into law LD 297 would allow rangers to carry guns. It would also mandate that they go through training on how to use them.