Rockland’s minimum wage for some workers will increase from $15 per hour to $15.50 on Wednesday.

This increase, which applies to people employed by a company with more than 25 workers, will come at the same time as the state minimum wage increase. The state’s minimum wage will increase from $14.15 per hour to $14.65 on Wednesday.

Portland, the only other Maine city to have a minimum wage higher than the statewide one, will also be increasing its minimum wage on Wednesday, from $15 per hour to $15.50 per hour.

Rockland voters approved a law in November 2020 that increased the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024, with future changes based on cost-of-living increases.

The minimum wage for workers employed by smaller companies will be the state minimum wage. For service employees, the direct minimum wage before tips will be $7.75 per hour in Rockland. If the employee’s tips do not add up to at least $15.50 per hour, the employer must make up the difference.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year.

Two businessmen purchased WKIT-FM from the best-selling writer after he announced that the station and two others would go silent after New Year’s Eve. The buyers are the Maine-based duo Greg Hawes and Jeff Solari, who formed Rock Lobster Radio Group to run the station.

“WKIT is the most legendary station in the region. It has tremendous history. We couldn’t let it die,” they said in a statement.

King is a lifelong rocker and performed with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band that featured literary icons performing for charity. He announced earlier this month that at age 77 he thought it was time to say good-bye to the radio stations.

“I’m sorry as hell to be closing down WKIT and its sister stations,” King posted earlier this month on social media. “I held off the suits for as long as I could.”

King’s foray into radio began in 1983 with the purchase of a radio station that was rebranded WZON in a nod to his book, “The Dead Zone.” That station closed before being acquired again by King in 1990.

A suspect shot up a South Portland apartment building on Sunday night.

The suspect fired several bullets at the residence on Wainwright Circle West in Redbank Village just after 11 p.m., according to Shara Dee, a spokesperson for the city.

Officers found that several bullets penetrated the front door and had become embedded in the living room wall, Dee said Monday.

Police found several shell casings in the street outside the building.

No one was injured in the shooting.

No arrests have been made, but police identified a suspect vehicle, a light-colored four-door hatchback.

Anyone with information about the shooting can contact Detective Lt. Christopher Todd at 207-799-511, ext. 7448, or by email at christo@southportland.gov. An anonymous tip can be left at 207-347-4100.

No additional information is being released.

This comes just days after another unknown suspect fired more than a dozen bullets into a Cumberland Avenue apartment building in Portland. When police arrived early Thursday morning, they discovered numerous damaged windows and bullet holes in several apartments and shell casings in nearby Peppermint Park.

Another shooting was reported in Portland about 11:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue, where windows were shot out on a Ford Expedition. Shell casings were found on nearby Maplewood Street.