Skowhegan is selected as the host community for the fifth annual event.
Madeline St. Amour
Madeline St. Amour covers general news in the towns of Oakland, Winslow, Vassalboro, China and Unity, as well as crime and the new Fiberight plant in Hampden. She started at the Sentinel in the spring of 2016 after graduating from the University at Albany in New York, where she worked as a stringer for the Associated Press at the Capitol bureau covering the minimum wage issue and tuition at public colleges. When she’s not in the newsroom, she enjoys trying new recipes, traveling and hiking.
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Maine Department of Education makes push for regional services
A workshop Friday at the Augusta Civic Center will delve into new state law that authorizes creation of regional service centers.
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Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State
Man charged in Indiana ‘sextortion’ is linked to 2015 Facebook posts of Maine girls
Investigators said Wednesday that a California man threatened teens in as many as 10 states, including Maine, and is charged with threatening and sexual exploitation of an Indiana girl.
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Naked man with walker on Waterville trail charged with indecency
Ricky Thompson, 67, allegedly told police that he was ‘sunbathing.’
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Baby taken to hospital after rock is dropped from I-95 overpass onto pickup
Everyone in the pickup was ‘covered in glass’ from the broken windshield, state police say.
Posted inLife & Culture, Local & State, News
Waterville volunteers help growing numbers of Mainers to read
In recent years, the student count for Literacy Volunteers Waterville Area has been rising.
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Aircraft goes down in Benton woods; pilot suffers minor injuries
Bill Fuller told police his ultralight lost power.
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Burnham woman who found intruder in her bed died of heart attack
The fright, or shock, of the April 2 incident was great enough to cause a fatal event, the state medical examiner concludes.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Thomas College will use grant to fund 50 paid internships each year
Mike Duguay, executive director of the college’s Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation, says the intent is to create a talent pipeline for the central Maine workforce.
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Maine Marine among 3 killed in Osprey crash off Australia
First Lt. Benjamin Cross, 26 and a Bethel native, was an aviator aboard the tilt-rotor aircraft.