by Nancy Beal

News of the threefold budget increase that the Moosabec Ambulance Service (MAS) intended to ask of the towns it covers—Jonesport and Beals--came to the Jonesport select board by letter from MAS Service Chief Renèe Gray in mid-January. Last week, between their weekly meeting and the annual gathering of the town’s budget committee to set the warrant for town meeting (March 13), selectmen heard directly from Gray and her colleagues.