Good morning. Temperatures will be in the high 50s and low 60s with mostly cloudy skies throughout the state.

Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

• It might seem strange that an inmate is advocating for the prison guards who keep him locked down to receive higher pay.
  
  But Jeffrey Libby, who is serving a 60-year sentence for murder at Maine State Prison, said it is one of the few solutions to remedy the chronic shortage of corrections officers.
  
  “The staff shortage and overtime issue is a widespread concern among the inmate population. With all this comes significant everyday disruption in the lives of the inmate population and the staff population,” Libby said in a recent interview from the prison.

• Bangor residents Marwa Hassanien, David Rutledge and Troy Wagstaff are running for the School Committee for the first time. Carin Sychterz is seeking re-election after her first three-year term ends this November.
  
  The election takes place Nov. 5, and absentee ballots are now available.

• Bangor is moving toward letting its police department charge fees to homeless shelters and group homes that call 911 for reasons that aren’t deemed to be emergencies after Bangor’s police chief reported an increase in non-emergency calls.
  
  But it’s hard to tell how much of a spike there really has been for those types of calls. The Bangor police provided data on the number of calls it's received from a youth homeless shelter since 2017, but not a breakdown on emergency and non-emergency calls. It didn't have data available on the number of emergency and non-emergency calls from group homes.

• Franklin Roosevelt discussed military strategies with Winston Churchill on the presidential yacht during World War II. John F. Kennedy celebrated his 46th birthday there. And it’s where Richard Nixon was when he told his family he planned to resign rather than face impeachment.

• Come Monday morning, another herd of hunters, along with their friends and family members, will embark on special hunts as the second major week of moose season gets underway across the state.
  
  I’m among those who believe that there’s no better time to be on a dirt road deep in the Maine woods than mid-October.

• Fort Kent’s Austin Theriault had a lot of success on superspeedways en route to his ARCA Series championship in 2017, and he hope that will continue on Sunday in the Monster Energy Cup Series.
  
  Theriault’s fifth race of the season for Rick Ware Racing comes at 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. On Oct. 20, he will jump into another Ware car, the No. 52, for the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

• What’s good for this weekend in eastern Maine? Let’s find out!
  
  Given that it’s the second week of October, and there are only a few weeks left of proper fall weather, there are, of course, lots of fall-centric events happening this weekend.