WATERVILLE

Waterville’s Catholic parish decides to scale back Masses

The parish serving Catholics in the Greater Waterville area announced over the weekend that the number of available Masses would be scaled back.

Corpus Christ Parish identified three such services that would be discontinued after March 6 — 5:30 p.m. Saturday, at Immaculate Heart of Mary church in Fairfield; 6 p.m. Saturday, at Saint Theresa church in Oakland; and 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Notre Dame church in Waterville.

The Rev. Joseph Daniels, the parish’s pastor, made the announcement in a letter that was read to parishioners at this weekend’s Masses. He cited a shortage of available priests assigned to cover the existing Mass schedule.

The parish still offers three Masses on Saturday evening and six Masses on Sunday, including a 4:30 p.m. service at Colby College, Daniels said.

He said the parish eventually will need to grapple with a longer-term problem: The number of Catholics attending church in the Waterville area has greatly shrunk during the past several decades.

AUBURN

Turner woman dies after collision with tractor-trailer

A Turner woman died Sunday after her car collided with a tractor-trailer at Center and Colby streets.

Auburn police said Allyson Dunn, 32, was northbound on Center Street around 8:30 a.m. when she lost control of her 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt and skidded into the southbound lane.

Her car collided with a tractor-trailer driven by Gerald Moody, 59, of Oakland, who works for Big Rock Transportation of Peru, Ind. He was not injured.

Dunn had to be extricated from her vehicle by Auburn firefighters, but her injuries proved to be fatal.