City Manager Nate Rudy expects a modest increase in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, in part because more than an extra $100,000 is earmarked for fire services.
Jason Pafundi
Jason Pafundi, a native Floridian who moved to Maine from Los Angeles in August 2015 with his wife, covers Hallowell, Togus, education and religion. He began his career at the Kennebec Journal in November 2015 after freelancing for the Portland Press Herald for several months.
Pafundi graduated from the University of Florida earlier this century and has taught high school English, coached varsity basketball and worked in media relations for the New York Rangers.
The diehard Mets and Redskins fan is a sports, movies, music and television fanatic who enjoys discussing current events, history and pop culture. He’s attended two Super Bowls, two World Series, a Stanley Cup Final and has seen Elton John in concert 13 times and counting.
Pafundi’s modest goals for 2017 including cutting back on his cheese consumption.
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New exhibit honors people who saved potential Holocaust victims
Rescuers, including August Felix Florin and Allegonda Balte-Peper, were “ordinary people put into extraordinary circumstances.”
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Waterville high school among 10 Maine schools to receive music grant for upcoming school year
The Little Kids Rock national nonprofit will provide $5,000 worth of musical instruments to the schools as part of a pilot program to increased music education in Maine.
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Gardiner senior finishes in top 24 in national poetry contest
Gabrielle Cooper won the state Poetry Out Loud competition and went to last week’s nationals in Washington, D.C., where she advanced to the third semifinal round.
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Hallowell committee begins discussion on recreational marijuana
The Ordinance Rewrite Committee will work with the city’s Marijuana Task Force to address recreational-marijuana related business, which was legalized during the Nov. 8 election.
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Hallowell residents approve $2.36 million bond package
The 563-355 vote clears the way for the city to spend $625,000 for next year’s Water Street reconstruction project and $600,000 for the ongoing redevelopment of Stevens Commons, among other projects.
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DOT says Hallowell road project on track to begin April 2
The nearly $3 million reconstruction of a busy stretch of Water Street has been in the works for years and should be completed by mid-October 2018.
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Interim University of Maine at Augusta president expected by June 1
With the resignation of James Conneely, the university system once again faces a leadership void at the school, which serves a lot of nontraditional students.
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State transportation officials to provide update Thursday on Water Street project in Hallowell
The reconstruction of the busy corridor is scheduled to begin next April and to be finished in mid-October at an estimated cost of nearly $3 million.
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Hallowell voters heading to polls Friday for $2.36 million bond vote
The controversial bond package includes money for the Stevens Commons redevelopment project, and signs around the city are urging people to get out and vote.