Jessica Lowell

3 days ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

WINSLOW — Town councilors Jeff West and Dale Macklin resigned from their seats this week, citing negative behavior from other councilors. West’s chair was empty at the start of the council meeting Monday night at the Winslow Public Library, where about two dozen town residents were in the audience. He had resigned earlier that afternoon and requested that his resignation letter be read at the meeting.

1 week ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

AUGUSTA — An Augusta man with prior convictions for sexual abuse of a minor was sentenced Monday to nine months behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing child sexual abuse materials involving children less than 12 years old. Dexter G. Newbury was charged with 10 counts of possession of sexually explicit materials of a minor under 12 years old last year by Augusta Police.

1 week ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

SKOWHEGAN — A sidewalk improvement project on Norridgewock Avenue began last week and is expected to continue through late summer, transportation officials said. An approximately 1/3-mile stretch of the road, from the Margaret Chase Smith Library to Coburn Avenue, is set to get new sidewalks, accessibility upgrades, drainage improvements and water utility work, the Maine Department of Transportation said in an announcement Monday.

1 week ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

Border Patrol agents arrested 39 people in Maine during a 10-day targeted operation that concluded last week. According to information provided by the federal agency, all were undocumented immigrants, most from Central American countries. So far this year, Border Patrol officials have arrested more people in Maine than in all of 2024, reflecting the Trump administration’s hard-line stance on detaining and deporting individuals who are in the United States illegally.

1 week ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

AUGUSTA — City councilors have approved a $91.3 million city and school budget expected to raise property taxes by 2.5%. Councilors voted 7-1 Thursday to approve the latest budget proposal, although some of the seven councilors who voted for the budget said they did so with some apprehension, particularly about the school’s $41.3 million share of it, a roughly $3 million increase officials said was largely attributable to escalating special education costs.