Posted:Today Updated: 1:03 AM The Town Council plans to consider changes in response to a dog killing a rare bird in July.

By Dennis Hoey dhoey@pressherald.com Staff Writer

SCARBOROUGH Unleashed dogs would be banned from town beaches during the spring and summer months if the Town Council endorses changes to its animal control and piping plover ordinances.

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Elvis and Jakey frolic in the surf at Pine Point in Scarborough on Saturday, July 27, 2013. The Scarborough Town Council will decide Oct. 2 whether to ban unleashed dogs from the town's beaches during the spring and summer.

Carl D. Walsh / Staff Photographer

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An adult plover stands close by a nesting plover chick.

Photo by Amanda Reed / Maine Audubon

The council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Town Hall to decide whether it should settle a dispute with the federal government that began during the early morning hours of July 15 after an unleashed dog killed an endangered piping plover chick on Pine Point Beach.

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