GrowSmart Maine, in choosing Waterville to hold panel talks and demonstrations, says it aims to hold its annual conference in a community going through a revitalization.
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.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Dangerous lead levels detected in water at Benton Elementary School
The school has stopped allowing local water to be used for cooking and drinking, instead using water provided by Poland Spring, officials said.
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Town land issues dominate China hearing on Nov. 8 ballot items
About 25 people attended a forum Monday night about proposed changes to China’s land use ordinance and proposals to buy two land parcels for town use.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Police: Marijuana caregiver had more than 17 pounds of pot in Fairfield house
Zachary Ricker, 22, now of Benton, was summoned on drug charges more than a month after police raided the home on High Street in Fairfield.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Waterville woman arrested on warrants, drug charges in Fairfield
Natasha M. Nadeau, 26, was summoned on drug charges after Fairfield police allegedly found syringes filled with heroin in her purse.
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Alcohol may be factor in Madrid Township motorcycle crash, police say
The single-vehicle crash resulted in serious injuries to the driver, Keith Nowers, who was taken by Lifeflight helicopter to a Lewiston hospital.
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College of the Atlantic students involved in Thorndike van crash released from hospital
The two-vehicle crash on Sunday outside the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s Common Ground fairgrounds injured eight people and destroyed both vans.
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Oakland’s Transfer Station committee looks for ways to increase recycling
Some residents don’t know where the recycling station is, committee members say, which hurts taxpayers in the end because the town must pay more to haul trash out.
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Waterville nursing home transfers ownership to second-largest Catholic health care system in U.S.
Mount Saint Joseph is now run by Trinity Health, but will maintain the legacy and values of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Lyon, officials said.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Oakland Town Council chairman faces retired Maine Army National Guard official in race for House District 77
Both Republican Michael Perkins, of Oakland, and Democrat Alan Tibbetts, of Sidney, want to create jobs in the state, but both have different ideas of how to do it.