Andrew Gifford, 24, was charged by police in connection with the early Saturday morning incident at the Alfond Apartments at Colby.
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Maine’s high court orders new sentencing for man involved in shootout that wounded Waterville officer
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court in a ruling Thursday said the judge who oversaw the trial of Richard Murray-Burns erred in the way he imposed the sentence against Murray-Burns for the 2019 shooting.
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Two men arrested in Waterville following monthslong drug investigation
Acting Waterville police Chief Bill Bonney said the seizure of cocaine, crack, crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin put “a significant dent in the drug trade in our community.”
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Crisis building at Kennebec County wastewater treatment plants
Wastewater treatment plant operators across Maine face paying higher fees to truck sludge to New Brunswick after two state laws curtailed how biosolid disposal is handled.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Rebecca Corbett returns to Waterville for ‘She Said’ screening downtown
Rebecca Corbett, the editor who spearheaded The New York Times’ 2017 investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, reflected at Friday’s panel on her first-ever job at the Morning Sentinel and the role of an editor in investigative reporting.
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Somerset County cuts 911 answering service for Kennebec County, citing staffing challenges
Kennebec County officials are now considering what steps they can take to fill the gap in emergency communications after Somerset County commissioners voted to not renew contracts with 16 communities across northern and western Kennebec County.
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Quarry Road Trails is a Nordic skiing gem
When our friends, John and Diane Stokinger, invited my wife, Nancy, and me to join them for Nordic skiing and snowshoeing at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville, I was skeptical. Although vaguely aware of the existence of ski trails in that central Maine community, I didn’t know anything about them. The Stokingers knowledge was also […]
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Roses are red, cockroaches go crunch: Waterville pet store ‘turns your ex into lunch’
Fish Tails Pet Emporium is cashing in on a nationwide trend: For a small fee on the week around Valentine’s Day, customers can name a cockroach after an ex-partner and feed it to the store’s 30-inch Savannah monitor lizard, Brutus.
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Waterville man sentenced to 42 years in prison for fatally shooting girlfriend
Nicholas P. Lovejoy, 32, was convicted of murdering his longtime girlfriend, who was the mother of their twin daughters, in 2019.
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Fire damages biomass plant at Colby College in Waterville
The fire early Wednesday is believed to have started when smoldering wood ash ignited wood chips on a conveyor belt in the plant, according to Waterville fire Chief Shawn Esler.