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Feb. 15, 1979: New roof over old one suggested for Waterville Junior High School, and numbing cold sends Central Maine Power electricity demand soaring yesterday, and nationwide oil shortage predicted in 2-6 years

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Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.

The new store at Elm Plaza on upper Main Street is at the space that housed JCPenney until late last year.

All community members are welcome to the Thomas College event.

The services are to be relocated over the next several months to the Inland Hospital campus on Kennedy Memorial Drive, officials said.

Breakfast isn’t as simple as it once was when the common egg was affordable, writes J.P. Devine.

Reporting Aside: Feb. 15 is National Gumdrop Day. But where are the celebrated candies?, Amy Calder writes.

Thomas College business professor to join the task force that was recently established under executive order by Gov. Janet Mills.

Slippery conditions are expected Friday, and snow and sleet are expected over the weekend.

This is meant to be a peaceful protest in solidarity against federal abuses of power.