Mayor Nick Isgro read aloud a proclamation at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, declaring Oct. 14 Columbus Day, which drew criticism from the public, including one woman who asked him to apologize.
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Former worker at Fairfield school for at-risk youths sentenced for sexually assaulting student, 15
Tia Rousseau, 31, sexually assaulted a then-15-year-old at a Waterville hotel while authorities searched for the student missing from the Good Will-Hinckley school.
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Waterville candidates file petitions to be on November ballot
Multiple people had filed petitions with the city clerk’s office to run for council, school board, charter commission and water district.
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Mills pardons Waterville man deported to Haiti
Lexius Saint Martin, who has a wife and children in Waterville, has been in Haiti since February 2018, when he was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
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Impaired man summoned in Waterville for accompanying permittee is State Trooper
Daniel Murray, a Maine State Trooper from Mount Vernon, was summoned on Tuesday after being stopped by Waterville Police for accompanying a 15-year-old permit driver while intoxicated.
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Two plead guilty to drug charges stemming from police pretending to deliver pizza at Waterville hotel
Brooke Knight, 27, of Hartland, and Gibril Darboe, 21, of Bronx, New York, both arrested in March at a Waterville hotel, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges Thursday, as did two others charged by police with drug offenses in other cases.
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Waterville melee ends with superficial stab wound
Police converged on Veterans Memorial Park Thursday afternoon where an intoxicated man who reportedly threatened a group of people with knives and screwdrivers was taken by ambulance to a hospital, claiming he was injured.
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Drug trafficking, terrorizing convictions in Waterville cases likely to result in deportation
Devon Duncan, 33, of New York City, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in drugs, two counts of trafficking in drugs, and terrorizing in Augusta court Thursday.
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11 Maine companies make Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing firms
Anchour of Lewiston was ranked at 892 with 476% growth and $2.5 million in revenue.
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Waterville animal shelter bulging with cats
Lisa Oakes, executive director of the Humane Society Waterville Area, says she hopes people will adopt more than 100 cats and kittens Saturday at the Clear the Shelter event.