The fire, reported just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, destroyed the three-story house at 1 Franklin St., but not before a Hallowell police officer and an anonymous passerby helped two people on a porch roof escape the flames.
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Employees’ frustrations mount over lingering payroll problems in Hallowell-based school district
The head of the school employees’ union said the payroll issues have distracted staff for more than a year and that ‘poor and untimely communication’ by administrators in trying to fix the problems ‘has become unbearable.’
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Hallowell man arrested after allegedly stealing antique gramophone, coins
Court records say Jedediah Wasilewski, 44, was arrested after police linked him to several burglaries reported in Hallowell and Farmingdale.
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Cleanup, damage assessment begin throughout central Maine after river flooding
Property and business owners were beginning to take stock Wednesday of the damage left behind as flood waters receded along the Kennebec River across the region after a storm dumped 3 to 6 inches of rain over a 24-hour period.
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Widespread flooding strikes central Maine following heavy rainfall
Some of the most severe flooding Tuesday occurred in Hallowell as the Kennebec River pushed over its banks and affected several businesses.
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Weekend storm brings power outages and flooding to central Maine
Across central Maine, where rainfall totals reached 5 inches in some areas from the strong weekend storm, high water levels in the Kennebec River watershed brought flood warnings and washed out roads, along with downed trees and power outages.
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Hallowell-area school district returns Japanese, English teaching positions to proposed budget after community outcry
Regional School Unit 2’s proposed $34.5 million budget needed different spending cuts as a result of the changes, officials said.
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Spectrum Generations receives donations toward Hallowell community center
Spectrum Generations recently received a $10,000 donation from Central Maine Power toward the Cohen Deck Project, which will bring stylish shade canopies and views of bucolic landscapes to older and disabled adults at Hallowell’s Cohen Community Center. The project is a $200,000 capital campaign-funded effort by Spectrum Generations to create a community-inspired outdoor social dining […]
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Bath artist celebrates 20 years creating with unusual medium — pipe cleaners
Keegan Companion, 22, first discovered his artistic talents in preschool and has crafted thousands of pipe cleaner sculptures, happily accepting “smiles as payment.”
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Hallowell-area district already faces $1.5 million budget hike in first year without Richmond
Even though the budget numbers are expected to change over the coming months, RSU 2 school officials are seeing the impact of federal COVID-19 funds ending and Richmond’s recent withdrawal from the regional school district.