The town committee responsible for dispersing tax increment financing funds wants to improve parking and make the area more accessible.
Madeline St. Amour
Madeline St. Amour covers general news in the towns of Oakland, Winslow, Vassalboro, China and Unity, as well as crime and the new Fiberight plant in Hampden. She started at the Sentinel in the spring of 2016 after graduating from the University at Albany in New York, where she worked as a stringer for the Associated Press at the Capitol bureau covering the minimum wage issue and tuition at public colleges. When she’s not in the newsroom, she enjoys trying new recipes, traveling and hiking.
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One month later, Waterville police program aids handful of people struggling with drug addiction
The new program, Operation HOPE, has been approached by seven people so far, four of whom have already been placed in residential facilities.
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Waterville car wash traffic problem raises business, road questions
Frustration over back-ups and long waits at J&S Oil on Kennedy Memorial Drive, the city’s only automatic car wash, has highlighted a simmering problem that involves city planning, economic development and police enforcement along one of the main traffic arteries in Waterville.
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Anti-KKK rally held in Skowhegan in response to fliers advertising a KKK ‘Neighborhood Watch’
About 20 people gathered at the Margaret Chase Smith Bridges to hold up signs protesting the Klan’s reappearance in Maine.
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New owners have plans for Unity Raceway, but some question if it’s a modern-day fit
While George and Sherry Fernald hope to revive the raceway as a center of the community in the town of Unity, others say it is noisy and no longer matches the vision of what Unity is today.
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Winslow council enacts temporary ban on marijuana establishments
Councilors also delayed voting on three times, saying they needed more information on proposals to accept applicants to the farm support program and to require annual business registrations.
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Waterville police ask public to stop lining up on road to enter car wash
The police chief said he has received complaints for weeks about traffic lining up on Kennedy Memorial Drive to enter the car wash at J&S Oil.
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Some central Maine businesses, workers, already feeling minimum wage increase effect
While restaurants and eateries in Waterville and Augusta, as well as servers, are bracing for the yearly increases, some workers are seeing just how big a difference the $1.50 increase can make.
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Unity takes first step toward becoming ‘destination’
The town’s Economic Development Committee is working with GrowSmart to get community input on how to revitalize the town.
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Winslow students volunteer to shovel snow for senior citizens
About 90 teenagers worked around Heartland Estates in Winslow on Friday to clear snow away from hard-to-reach areas for elderly people who had recently called the Town Office asking for help.