Members of the Green Street United Methodist Church, built in 1828, said they do not have financial capacity to keep the property. They are looking to sell it to an organization that would use it to help people experiencing homelessness.
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Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Fairfield-area school board approves budget proposal with 4.8% increase, position cuts
The area school board approved a $29.6 million budget proposal for the coming year, a 4.8% increase from last year even as the district anticipates cutting 11 positions, most of which are currently vacant.
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Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
One person killed in China house fire, authorities say
Investigators believe the owner of the home at 93 Dutton Road, identified as 53-year-old David Buchanan, died in Friday’s fire.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, Morning Sentinel
Waterville man pleads guilty to terrorism charge following planned mosque attack
Xavier Pelkey, 19, entered the plea Friday in federal court in Bangor to a charge of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, prosecutors said.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
Week In Photos March 31-April 7, 2023
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Move along, April, you fickle month
As Robert Frost penned in his poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” April has a habit of taking us a step into summer and then two back into winter, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Video: Weather vane removed from former Hallowell fire station
A historic weather vane has been removed from the former fire house in Hallowell. The city will store the object in its vault while it seeks to get it appraised for its value and to determine the cost of duplicating the item so it can display the original at City Hall and use the duplicate on the building.
Video by Joe Phelan.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
Photos: Historic weather vane, once stolen and ransomed back, is removed from Hallowell tower
A historic weather vane has been removed from the former fire house in Hallowell, this time, with the city’s permission.
The instrument, which depicts a horse pulling a fire-hose cart with a single fireman, has a rich history.
In November of 1983, it was stolen from the tower of the Second Street building and ransomed back about a week later, when the publisher of a Maine antiques newspaper met up with two strangers in the woods near Manchester, New Hampshire, and paid them $1,000 of city funds in exchange for the valuable item.
The next year it was returned to the building with help from an Augusta Fire Department ladder truck.
The city will store the object in its vault while it seeks to get it appraised for its value and to determine the cost of duplicating the item so it can display the original at City Hall and use the duplicate on the building.
All photos by Joe Phelan.
Posted inCommunity News, Local & State, Local Government, Morning Sentinel
Pittsfield town manager to step down at end of year, become grant administrator
Kathryn Ruth, who has been the top manager in Pittsfield for 21 years, plans to serve as the town’s grant administrator for a year before retiring.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Day’s Jewelers to move Waterville corporate offices to The Elm on College Avenue
The company will lease the first floor from local businessman Bill Mitchell, who says the City Council chambers and First Congregational Church United Church of Christ and its related Essentials Closet will remain on the lower level of the building.