KENNEBUNK (AP) – The water district that serves towns in the Kennebunk area has postponed its vote on a 30-year agreement to allow the Poland Spring bottled water company to tap into its aquifer.

The vote to postpone came Wednesday after dozens of activists gathered outside the office of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District in Kennebunk to protest the deal.

They carried signs lambasting Poland Spring’s Swiss parent, Nestle, and questioning whether the district’s water supply can handle a drawdown of up to 250,000 gallons a day.

Superintendent Norm Labbe has said that the purchase would create jobs and provide a stream of income to help area residents keep their water bills down.

He said the postponement of a vote to July 30 will allow time for the district to produce fact sheets addressing concerns about the deal.

Court upholds land taking for bridge

PORTLAND (AP) – The Maine Supreme Court says the state Transportation Department legally took land occupied by a well-known restaurant so it could build a new bridge over the Penbobscot River.

In its ruling Thursday, the court says the former owners of the Sail Inn failed to present any evidence, other than personal opinion, contradicting the state’s position that taking all five acres of the restaurant’s land in Prospect was necessary.

The court also says plaintiffs Paul and Robert Dyer not contest that traffic safety concerns existed during construction of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge near the site of the Sail Inn.

The state condemned land for construction of a bridge to replace the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, which was built in 1931. The replacement bridge opened in 2006.

2 N.H. salmonella cases reported

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire health officials say they have identified two more cases of Salmonella poisoning linked to the national contaminated tomato outbreak.

As with the first case reported earlier, the two new patients are New Hampshire residents, but it is unclear whether they were exposed in the state or elsewhere.

No one has been hospitalized and there have been no deaths in New Hampshire related to the outbreak. The New Hampshire patients join 707 people in 34 states who have gotten ill.

Public Health Director, Dr. Jose Montero, said the patients range in age from 1 to 43 and got sick between May 31st and June 11th.

The types of tomatoes considered safe to eat include grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and tomatoes still on the vine.

New leads in slaying of teenager

WARREN, Mass. (AP) – Eight years after the disappearance and murder of 16-year-old lifeguard Molly Bish, the Worcester District Attorney’s office continues following leads in the unsolved case.

DA spokesman Timothy Connolly says the office received about 100 tips in the past year, one of which led to two “persons of interest.”

Connolly told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester the two individuals had never before been interviewed but may have information about the case. He declined to identify them or say when they might be interviewed.

Bish’s family and friends plan a candlelight vigil Friday evening at Comins Pond in Warren, where the teenager was last seen alive on June 27, 2000.

Her remains were found in 2003 in a wooded area of Palmer.

Kayak floats away, leading to search

RYE, N.H. (AP) – There is a happy ending to the search for a possible missing kayaker in the Atlantic off Rye.

The search began Thursday morning after an empty kayak washed ashore. By afternoon, the Coast Guard learned the boat had broken free from its mooring at a marina and floated out to sea.

No one had been in the boat.