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February 14, 2013

Thomas College, KVCC to freeze tuition rates for next year

Tuition will remain flat next year for two area colleges, and perhaps more.
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February 11, 2013

Police to relatives: Evidence exists Ayla Reynolds is not alive

WATERVILLE — The maternal family of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds has broken its silence regarding a January meeting with investigators.
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February 10, 2013

Winslow council hears farmland pitch on Monday

WINSLOW — An opportunity to create more farmland and food will be the focus of tonight’s Town Council meeting.
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February 10, 2013

MOFGA casts wide net to find new head for new era

UNITY — Officials at the country’s largest organic farming association are hoping more applicants will seek its top post.
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February 9, 2013

Divided Burnham puts schoolhouse’s future, and age-old debate, before voters

BURNHAM — Burnham is a town divided.
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February 8, 2013

Fairfield woman stable after minivan collision with logging truck

A woman who survived a collision with a logging truck Thursday is “very lucky,” police said.
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February 7, 2013

Winter storm won’t stop weekend events

Major winter storms are generally cause for event cancellations, but today’s wintry weather is cause for excitement for the organizers of one central Maine event this weekend.
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February 5, 2013

Public safety project opens long-lost, unique view of Ticonic Falls from Winslow

WINSLOW — Commuters traveling west across the Ticonic Bridge now can spy a part of the river that had been obscured for more than a decade.
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February 3, 2013

YouTube video revives 1985 Colby College performance by rapper LL Cool J

WATERVILLE — In the mid-1980s, central Mainers were vastly more familiar with L.L. Bean than LL Cool J.
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February 2, 2013

Once more into the rink: Waterville area sees resurgence of ice skating

WATERVILLE — Time is cyclical, some say. Decades ago, outdoor ice skating rinks were commonplace in central Maine. In the 1960s and ’70s, scads of school-aged boys roamed from neighborhood to neighborhood, playing pickup hockey games on makeshift backyard rinks and public facilities.