Waterville News

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DiBlasi, 51, of Fairfield, a former Waterville attorney and Workers' Compensation Board advocate for injured workers in Augusta, was appointed county administrator Thursday by a 5-0 vote of commissioners.

In recent years Maine has been part of a growing small farmer and local foods movement that contributes to everyone's well being.

Labor groups say a Winslow-based manufacturing company has illegally fired employees for trying to form a union - "very false" accusations, according to the company's president.

Eagle Rental of Waterville will have to pay use tax on four Cadillac Escalades driven by company owner Dan Bickford and his wife Jane, who is company vice president and treasurer.

Waterville and Winslow high schools, average according to the state's new grading system, are ranked among the top 12 in the state by a national magazine.

Eagle Rental of Waterville had asked the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to overturn a decision by a trial judge ordering that the use tax - similar to a sales tax - be paid on those vehicles which the Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected that appeal in a decision issued Tuesday.

They took two final votes on the proposal, which now goes to voters in a June 11 referendum.

Residents will likely have a new place to take recyclables July 1 - at no cost to the city - if councilors authorize City Manager Michael Roy to work out a deal with a private recycling firm Tuesday.

A Waterville man arrested Friday aboard a train in Connecticut after leading police on a chase last week through three central Maine communities faces prison time.

Congress is preparing to debate major farm and food policy bills that would likely cut funding to programs used by many low-income Mainers but could separately provide a boost to Maine's thriving local foods movement.

What started in 1989 as a small music shop in Brunswick now has 11 stores in Maine and New Hampshire that employ 178 people, most of whom are full-time. The Bull Moose store at Elm Plaza here is bursting at the seams and plans to expand this summer into the former Mr.

An FBI agent made an arrest after hearing a man on an Amtrak train in Connecticut bragging about being wanted in Maine.

A man who led police on a high-speed chase in 2008 was being sought by police Wednesday after another chase, this one reaching speeds of 90 mph before officers backed off for reasons of public safety.

Eastport artist Arthur Cadieux's exhibit "The Edge Of Spring" opens Friday, May 24.

Demolition crews have started tearing down a church that's stood in Waterville for more than a century.

An evening that began with a Dresden man threatening and assaulting Unity College security staff ended at a Waterville hospital, where the man allegedly bit a Waldo County deputy.

JAY/LIVERMORE FALLS - One has dual citizenship, another worked her way up, one young man has deep roots in the area and the fourth chose to finish her high school career at Spruce Mountain High School.

On Sunday, Catholic church leaders announced that the Rev. Jack Dickinson, Maine's youngest priest and the parochial vicar at Corpus Christi, has been assigned to a new location after two years in the Waterville-area parish.

Author Joe Hill reads from his latest novel, "NOS4A2," at Books a Million in South Portland Saturday.