 This is NPR News in Washington. And with this look at Maine news, I'm Sam Tracy. It's four minutes past five o'clock. The Mills administration plans to spend more than $700,000 to hire temporary workers to address staffing shortages that have occasionally disrupted ferry service. In recent months, the Maine State Ferry Service has been forced to cancel multiple trips between Rockland and Vinyl Haven because it didn't have the minimum number of crew members to meet federal requirements.