This year, Children’s Grief Awareness Day is Thursday, Nov. 17, to participate, show children support by wearing blue that day. Children’s Grief Awareness Day is a way to acknowledge grieving children and to learn ways to support them, according to a news release from Jillian Roy, Hope’s Place coordinator, Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area. Most […]
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Firefighters prevent flames from spreading to house after blaze destroys Newport garage
The fire Tuesday night on Elm Street apparently began in leaves and spread to a vinyl lattice fence and then to the garage, according to an official.
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Thibodeau, Lawrence win seats on Fairfield Town Council
Incumbent Stephanie Thibodeau and former Councilor Peter Lawrence beat out newcomer Lawrence MacDonald for two open seats on the council, according to preliminary results Tuesday.
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Donahue, Margolskee defeat incumbents, secure seats on Pittsfield Town Council
Heather Donahue won an at-large seat Tuesday on the Town Council by a narrow margin, while Howard Margolskee secured the District 3 seat.
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Residents of MSAD 49 approve plan for $45.6 million elementary school in Benton
People in the Fairfield-based school district approved the measure Tuesday by a nearly 400-vote margin, but they rejected a related question seeking $1.8 million in local money for a larger gym for the school.
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SKILLS, Inc. to hold hiring event Nov. 16 in Hinckley
HINCKLEY — SKILLS, Inc., a nonprofit serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in central Maine, has planned a hiring event for 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Northern Kennebec Valley Career Center at 23 Stanley Road. The center is located in the Averill building on the campus of the Kennebec Valley Community College […]
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Winslow voters elect Trahan, West to Town Council, Russell to School Board
Incumbents Lee Trahan and Jeff West defeated Benjamin Twitchell for seats on the Town Council, while former town Councilor Steve Russell bested Nick Weiss for a seat on the School Board.
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Winslow residents reject ballot measure that sought to ban the use of fireworks
Residents by a decisive margin Tuesday — 2,410 to 1,430 — struck down a question that would have prohibited the use of nearly all pyrotechnics in Winslow.
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Norridgewock crash injures 4 people, leaves 3 vehicles destroyed
A Madison driver told authorities he fell asleep at the wheel prior to his vehicle crossing the center line and colliding with two vehicles on U.S. Route 201A on Tuesday.
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Women’s rights, inflation, the economy among the issues drawing Waterville-area voters to polls
Voter turnout appeared to be strong Tuesday at polling sites in Oakland, Skowhegan, Waterville and elsewhere.