The City Council at a special meeting Thursday will consider disbanding a subcommittee that had been meeting illegally and instead authorize the city manager to spend up to $150,000 on coronavirus-related emergency needs.
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Our View: Waterville’s secret meetings are no way to govern
Even a disease outbreak doesn’t excuse a municipality’s violation of the state’s public meeting law.
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Waterville scrambles to meet public meeting laws
The COVID-19 subcommittee met again Monday and discussed how to move forward in light of the fact that the city has no provision in its charter to allow for it to make big decisions in emergencies.
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Colby College staff member tests positive for coronavirus
The college’s dean said in a notice Thursday night the staff member works for Colby’s athletic department and has been isolated at home with relatively mild symptoms.
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City Solicitor: Waterville coronavirus panel illegally met in secret, made unlawful decisions
City Solicitor William A. Lee III issued a memo to city officials Thursday saying holding subcommittee coronavirus meetings in private is illegal, and the panel does not have the authority to make certain decisions.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Second suspect arrested in Waterville child shooting case
Jeremiah Gamblin was arrested Friday on a warrant, but charged Monday with elevated aggravated assault in connection with a drive-by shooting Feb. 28 that injured Emahleeah Frost, 7, of Waterville.
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Waterville, Augusta hospitals starting up outdoor coronavirus testing sites
The sites from MaineGeneral Medical Center and Northern Light Inland Hospital come as the first Kennebec County cases have been confirmed.
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Jewish Film Festival postponed due to coronavirus concerns
‘Of course we’re disappointed, but we felt that we did what we had to do,’ said Barbara Merson, executive director of the Maine Jewish Film Festival.
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Colby College announces on-campus classes will end this week; students to leave campus for remote learning
The Waterville college will continue regularly scheduled classes through the end of this week, and all students who can reasonably move out by Sunday, when spring break starts, are being asked to do so.
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Maine Film Center commissions new score for Maine’s first movie, ‘Jean the Match-Maker’
In 2010 the first film ever shot in Maine was saved from being lost forever when a tinted nitrate print was found and restored.