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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.

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Maine Compass: Community investment could be our state’s growth engine

by Charles Lawton November 24, 1999November 25, 2019

Making Maine municipalities places where families want to live – as Colby has helped to do in Waterville – is critical to attracting and keeping workers.

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