The application process to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is in two phases and communities accepted could get up to $400,000 each to help improve specific areas of their city, town or region.
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Mid-Maine Technical Center in Waterville reports case of COVID-19
Close contacts to the person who tested positive include three Waterville Senior High School students.
Citing COVID-19 cases, Hallowell’s Liberal Cup closes for a week
Exposure to a customer who tested positive for the respiratory disease prompted a round of testing that showed several employees had contracted COVID-19.
Selectwoman, resident want to keep land in China for use as park
The board voted 3-2 on Dec. 7 to sell the 39 acres, but Selectwoman Janet Preston and resident Lindsey Harwath have other ideas for the land.
Gardiner officials agree to lease Water Street parking lot
The short-term lease with Gardiner Main Street would expand parking availability in downtown Gardiner, where it is sometimes in short supply.
Dam replacement project between drinking water ponds completed in Skowhegan
Contamination of the Skowhegan drinking water sources believed to have originated at site of the construction project between the systems Upper and Lower ponds.
Former Waterville pot store owner pleads guilty in federal drug, firearms case
Daniel Hall, 32, distributed cocaine and marijuana last year to a confidential informant at his then-medical marijuana store, Green Thumb Organics, in Waterville, according to court records.
Boy accidentally shoots himself in hand with pistol in Pittston
A two-shot Derringer pistol was in his grandfather’s coat pocket, police say, when he attempted to use it and it fired Tuesday.
Gardiner-area school board position open after member resigns
Jon Umland, who was in the last year of his term as a member of the Maine School Administrative District 11 school board, resigned his post after he moved from the town in which he’d been elected.
Council hires Stephen J. Daly as Waterville’s new city manager
City councilors Tuesday also welcomed the city’s 53rd mayor, Jay Coelho, who was sworn into office earlier in the day by City Clerk Patti Dubois at City Hall.