The decision to not hold an in-person festival came just weeks before it was set to return after not being held last year because of the pandemic.
Scott Monroe
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Veteran journalist joins Morning Sentinel team as city editor
David Warren, who now leads Morning Sentinel reporters and photographers, comes to the Waterville newsroom after serving since 2019 as public safety editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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J.P. Devine: Alcatraz is still there
Good Sunday morning. As we eat breakfast, the advance party of the Taliban have entered Kabul, and is installing Keurig hookahs and prayer rugs. It’s over. Inside our command building, the intelligence boys and girls are burning all paper goods, including Kleenex, paper towels, lottery tickets and toilet paper, sending smoke from the embassy’s chimneys. […]
Posted inMaine
Tell us: Do you agree with your school district’s reopening plan?
School board across central Maine have been deciding in recent weeks whether to require students and staff to masks, among other pandemic protocols.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Photos: Demolition derby, harness racing at the Skowhegan State Fair
The state fair, which concluded on Saturday, featured a demolition derby and horse harness racing in its final days.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: Sayonara Tokyo
With the Tokyo Olympics over, J.P. Devine ponders our fascination with the spectacle of the games and memories from his glory days.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Oakland-based RSU 18 adopts mask requirements in schools after some parents shout concerns
School district adopts policy Wednesday night as superintendent says practices could be reevaluated at every board meeting, as COVID-19 pandemic conditions change.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville councilors mull uses of $1.6 million in relief funding, plan public hearing in September
The City Council decided Tuesday to seek public input before moving forward with deciding how to spending money that’s been made available to municipalities through the American Rescue Plan Act.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville mayor says he will continue in office despite health problems
Jay Coelho, 43, says he is feeling better and has been back home doing cardiac rehabilitation following his hospitalization last month to treat an acute heart condition.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville Opera House promotes its interim director to permanent position
Michelle Sweet had been serving as the opera house’s interim executive director since Tamsen Brooke Warner left the post about three months ago.