Fuel sales also are booming at Robert A. LaFleur Municipal Airport where $13 million in federal funding over the years has allowed for significant infrastructure improvements.
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Neighborhood redemption centers becoming less common as their numbers decline
Dozens of the centers have closed over the last two years in Maine, a reflection of the difficulty in finding workers and also rising costs that nibble away at razor-thin profit margins.
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Maine Office of Cannabis Policy holds listening session in Waterville
Held on Wednesday night at the Best Western in Waterville, the session draws about 70 people, including cultivators, retailers of medical and recreational cannabis, legislators and health care workers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Maine International Film Festival in Waterville went ‘so, so tremendously well,’ organizers say
The 25th annual festival, known as MIFF, drew filmmakers from as far as California, Mexico and the United Kingdom and moviegoers from all over the world, according to festival director.
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In effort to retain workers, Waterville-based Day’s Jewelers to lock its doors on Sundays
The employee-owned jeweler has operated seven days a week for decades, but a survey of workers found they were struggling with finding a balance between their professional and personal lives.
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Spencer and the Walrus plans Waterville concert
Waterville Rocks will feature Spencer and the Walrus at 6 p.m. Friday, July 22, at Head of Falls on Front Street in Waterville. In the event of rain, the concert will be moved to the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. The band is a consortium of Portland-based musicians who come together through a shared […]
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Former employees of LaVerdiere’s Super Drug to gather for reunion
The ex-workers will meet Saturday in Winslow to mark what would have been the Waterville-based company’s 100th anniversary.
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Want to see an anchor grind or airwalk? Waterville park to soon be the place to go
Skateboarders are expected to perform all sorts of tricks later this summer at Green Street Park in the city’s South End once a skatepark is completed.
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With school out for the summer, Maine teachers take on 2nd, 3rd jobs
Historically, about 20% of teachers across the country have taken on secondary jobs across the country during the school year. In the summer, that figure rose to about 33%, according to the latest national data.
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Mother of Ayla Reynolds expands wrongful death lawsuit to include child’s grandmother, aunt
Trista Reynolds alleges that Justin DiPietro’s mother and sister played roles in helping to ‘clean up’ and conceal evidence of the child’s death from a Waterville house in 2011.