David is the Morning Sentinel's city editor. He joined the staff in Waterville in August of 2021, arriving from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he was the public safety editor. Prior to working for the Missouri paper, David served as the supervisory breaking news staffer for The Associated Press based in Dallas; as executive editor of The Bristol Press & The New Britain Herald in Connecticut; city editor of the Globe-News in Amarillo, Texas; and deputy metro editor at The Sun in San Bernardino, California. He’s no stranger to Maine: early in his career, David served as city editor of the Kennebec Journal, wire editor at the Portland Press Herald and as a copy editor at the Sun Journal.
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PublishedMay 26, 2023
Oakland store to showcase artistic touch one woman brings to furniture
Katarina ‘Kacha’ Hernandez, who has a large online following for her furniture art, has opened Kacha Furniture on Church Street in Oakland with her husband.
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PublishedMay 26, 2023
Photos: Blues Traveler performs for sold-out crowd in Waterville
The longtime jam band, with frontman John Popper, has been drawing big crowds for three decades and most recently performed at the Waterville Opera House. Photos by Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans.
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PublishedMay 21, 2023
Colby College graduates told to embrace failure, stay true to self
At the Waterville college’s 202nd commencement exercises Sunday morning, diplomas were presented to 543 graduates from 38 states and 35 countries.
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PublishedApril 21, 2023
Driver found in Pittsfield hit-and-run that injured 2, police say
The driver of the vehicle was found after the people were struck Wednesday, but it wasn’t clear if the motorist is in custody or has been charged in the matter.
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PublishedApril 7, 2023
Waterville man pleads guilty to terrorism charge following planned mosque attack
Xavier Pelkey, 19, entered the plea Friday in federal court in Bangor to a charge of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, prosecutors said.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2023
Residents in Athens say it’s OK to sell alcohol on Sundays
People in the Somerset County town voted as part of the annual Town Meeting to approve the Sunday sales, and then a day later OK’d an annual municipal budget of about $700,000.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2023
Unity College continues transformation with ‘name augmentation’
The school is now called Unity Environmental University and an updated vision statement says it is “recognized as the thought leader in global ecological, economic and societal solutions.”