The City Council on Tuesday will consider leasing 42 of 60 spaces in a city-owned Front Street lot to Colby College for its planned boutique hotel on Main Street downtown.
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Waterville J.C. Penney store to stay open after company releases closings list
The national retailer plans to close 138 underperforming stores across the nation, but stores in South Portland, Auburn, Bangor, Waterville and Presque Isle are spared, while Rockland’s will get the axe.
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MaineGeneral imaging, laboratory services to move from FirstPark to Thayer
Orthopaedic and related X-ray services will remain at 107 FirstPark Drive, but MaineGeneral Health’s imaging and laboratory services are moving to the Thayer Center for Health on North Street in Waterville.
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Waterville police investigate armed robbery at Budget Host Airport Inn
Two men reportedly took cash from the office and showed a handgun early Friday morning before fleeing in a vehicle, police said.
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Florida men charged with using stolen credit cards at Waterville Wal-Mart
Yordan Chavez-Alvarez, 38, and Yunior Bencomo-Perez, 31, both of Miami, were reported to have used stolen credit card numbers to buy small items and load money onto gift cards at the store.
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Waterville technical school students, staff learn to ‘stop the bleeding’ from Homeland Security expert
Paul Brooks, EMS program manager for the U.S. Office of Health Affairs, stressed the need for people who are not medical workers help stop bleeding to prevent people from dying.
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Waterville parking study group eyes parking space potential downtown
The committee examining a recent traffic study met Wednesday for its second gathering, examining data on how many more parking spaces would be needed with more occupied buildings.
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Waterville school superintendent calls this year’s budget scenario ‘deep and dark’
The proposed 2017-18 school budget is currently at $22.4 million, which would be a 6 percent increase, or $1.3 million, above this school year’s $21.1 million budget.
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Arson charges against Waterville woman in group home fire dismissed
A judge concluded that Jean M. Rowe was mentally incompetent to face criminal charges in connection with setting fire to items in her bedroom last April at a Motivational Services group home.
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‘North Pond Hermit’ book author tells Waterville crowd Knight was intelligent, funny
Writer Michael Finkel, who had corresponded with Christopher Knight through letters and visited him in jail, spoke to a crowd at the Waterville Opera House Thursday about the man who lived alone in the Rome woods for 27 years.