The 2021 diesel school bus from the Blue Bird Corporation will be financed through a grant from the Department of Transportation and aid from the Department of Education.
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News and information from the greater Waterville area.
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Waterville Planning Board recommends council rezone properties for solar farms
City Planner Ann Beverage reported Wednesday that Planning Board member Tom Nale Jr. resigned from the board Tuesday.
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Dana Wilde: The tale of a little boy and a grass spider
Sometimes I get chills when my mind homes in on the fact that spiders are sentient, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Skowhegan-area school district holds final hearing on $36.6 million budget
The proposed budget for 2020-21 is $101,000 less than the current spending plan and heads to a referendum vote on July 14.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Unity College reducing tuition for distance education graduate programs
Melik Peter Khoury, the college’s president, said the tuition reduction helps Unity meet its mission to make education more accessible.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville City Council combines differing Black lives matter resolutions after heated debate
Councilors voted Tuesday to add some of Councilor Flavia Oliveira’s alternate decree to Phil Bofia’s resolution about Black Lives Matter, but the debate proved divisive as another councilor declared, “All lives matter.”
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Software engineer with Tyler Technologies appointed to Waterville Board of Education
The board voted unanimously to appoint Krigbaum, 29, a senior software engineer for Tyler Technologies, to the Ward 5 seat vacated by Julian Payne, who resigned recently.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel, Politics
Presidential campaign tensions run high in Sidney over selectman’s signs calling Trump a ‘Liar’
Resident Kelly Couture says Selectman Alan Tibbetts’ “LIAR” signs are “divisive” and “borderline hate speech.” Couture also accused Tibbetts of moving and damaging Trump-Pence campaign signs, which he denies.
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Skowhegan, state to update study of possible second bridge at Thursday meeting
A second meeting after the first one held in September 2019 has been delayed in great part by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Skowhegan man, 42, charged after alleged break-in, assault
Police: Steven Warfield was arrested Sunday in Canaan and charged with assault, burglary, terrorizing, aggravated criminal trespass and a probation hold.