Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro co-founded the trust in 2021 and has been its CEO since, leading the acquisition of daily and weekly newspapers and websites in Maine previously owned by Reade Brower.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
Portland Ballet goes to Colby College. The assignment? Create a new work from scratch.
Eleven Colby students are working alongside the professional dance company on a new piece inspired by Maine’s landscape, history and lighthouses to be performed in Westbrook and Waterville.
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Posted inMaine, News
Northern Light to suspend birthing services in Waterville
Birthing services will not be available starting March 1 at Northern Light Inland Hospital and Northern Light Women’s Health.
Posted inMaine, News
PFAS in Maine can travel from stream to ski trail through snowmaking
Harmful and persistent forever chemicals that accumulate in some water bodies can be sprayed onto slopes by machine, but the extent of the risk is unknown.
Posted inMaine, News, Sports
Maine youth ice hockey is losing players. No one is sure how to stop it
The number of youth players in Maine is down 15% over the last 20 years.
Posted inMaine, News
Ticonic Bridge closes Monday to all traffic for 6 months
The bridge carries U.S. Route 201 over the Kennebec River from Waterville to Winslow.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Waterville’s Strait Jamaican Cuisine spreads flavor from back of home
Located at the back of Jamie Pomerleau’s house at 15 School St., the restaurant serves Jamaican takeout food.
Posted inMaine
Waterville to welcome scores of apartments starting in 2025
The first 15 units in the northernmost Lockwood Mill building on Water Street will get their first tenants shortly after the new year, according to officials.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Waterville Starbucks employees vote to unionize
Baristas voted Wednesday to join Starbucks Workers United, which represents employees at 520 Starbucks across the country.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Ayla Reynolds’ disappearance still a mystery 13 years later
Ayla was reported missing Dec. 17, 2011, from her Waterville home, launching one of the largest and most costly police investigations in state history.