CHINA -- Planning Board members will spend Tuesday's meeting talking about potential ordinance changes with two planners from the Kennebec Valley Council of Governments.

The first hour is scheduled for review of changes to the sign ordinance, with Planning Director Chris Huck from the Fairfield-based organization.

For the next hour, Community Planner Fred Snow is scheduled to lead a discussion about amending China's Land Development Code to add low-impact development concepts.

Board members and Code Enforcement Officer Scott Pierz have talked about both ideas for more than a year. Pierz considers present sign requirements unenforceable.

He and board members seek revisions that will allow businesses to advertise adequately without diminishing China's rural character.

Low-impact development involves minimizing effects of new houses, commercial buildings and other developments on the natural environment.

Much of the discussion has focused on ways to prevent storm-water runoff from affecting neighboring properties and waterways, for example by incorporating rain gardens (water-absorbing hollows planted with flowers and shrubs), natural buffers and other aesthetically pleasing runoff controls.

The board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Town Office meeting room and is open to the public.

Readfield assessors to convene today

READFIELD -- The Readfield Board of Assessors plans to meet at 2 p.m. today at the Town Office to review several abatement recommendations.

Selectmen will meet Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Town Office to continue a review of the town's financial procedures.

Woman charged in lobstering feud

ROCKLAND -- The daughter of a Maine lobsterman charged with shooting a fellow fishermen in a territorial feud has been indicted for reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon for her role in the shooting.

Knox County District Attorney Geoff Rushlau said 45-year-old Janan Miller was arrested Friday and released on unsecured bail after a grand jury indicted her.

Miller's father, Vance Bunker, faces two counts of elevated aggravated assault and two other charges for allegedly shooting 41-year-old Christopher Young in the neck on July 20 on a wharf on Matinicus, a small island 20 miles off Rockland. Young was charged with criminal trespass for allegedly refusing to leave Bunker's fishing boat.

Police said Miller pointed a shotgun at Young and another lobsterman during the confrontation.

Woman has skydiving mishap in Lebanon

LEBANON -- There's been another skydiving accident at a southwestern Maine site, two days after a woman celebrating her birthday by skydiving was injured when wind collapsed the parachute.

On Sunday night, members of the Lebanon Rescue Department were called to some woods where they found a young woman from Massachusetts who had landed off-course. They said the area is a back-up landing zone for "Skydive New England" and that the wind may have carried her away. Assistant Chief Jason Cole says the woman was taken to Frisbee Memorial Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

On Friday, a New Hampshire woman had a hard landing, along with her tandem partner, after plummeting 30 feet to the ground.

From staff and wire reports