Meg Robbins covers general news in the towns of Oakland, Winslow, China and Vassalboro for the Morning Sentinel. Though she grew up in New Jersey, her ties to Maine reach back generations. Meg’s work has appeared in the Vineyard Gazette, Pine Tree Watch, NJ Spotlight and various other outlets. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Meg began working for the Morning Sentinel in Sept. 2018 after living in South Africa for a year, where she produced a documentary about stand-up comedy. She geeks out over “Saturday Night Live,” movies, cats and good coffee.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2020
Officials head into the woods to explain plans for China School Forest’s upcoming harvest
The harvest could generate up to $8,000 from wood products, which volunteers hope can be put toward continued maintenance of the China School Forest on Lakewood Avenue.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2020
China officials reveal plan to harvest town-owned forest for first time since 1998
There will be two informational sessions on the management plan Saturday, one at 10 a.m. at the Town Office’s portable building and another on site at 11 a.m. that will begin at the China Primary School bus circle.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2020
Cracked pipe in East Vassalboro water system causes confusion, frustration after mixed messaging about boil order
The boil order was lifted Tuesday afternoon at about 4 p.m., an official said.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2020
Oakland, Winslow aim to start banner programs to honor hometown soldiers
If 32 more people apply for the $130 banners, Oakland would be one of just a handful of Maine municipalities to participate in the Hometown Heroes banner program.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2020
Conflicts of interest mire firefighter stipend debate in latest China budget conversation
The China select board was split over whether to declare that three members of the town’s budget committee, who are firefighters or have family members who are, should recuse themselves from discussing and voting on volunteer firefighter stipends.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
No one injured after truck loaded with wood chips rolls over in Athens
Officials believe that the driver, Elwood Yeaton III, 47, of Peru, may have navigated a turn too quickly, causing the vehicle to roll over.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2020
Waterville police seize $40K of drugs during Wednesday evening apartment search
Officers arrested Mayo Anthony Jones, 44, following a two-month, multi-agency investigation.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2020
Winslow Catholic school to close at end of year, signaling decline in area’s Catholic population
St. John Catholic School, which once had as many as 350 students enrolled in the 1960s, will close at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, with enrollment at 34 children.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2020
Waterville fire chief: Alleged white power gesture in photo made ‘unknowingly’
Waterville Fire Chief Shawn Esler said he investigated the allegation that a firefighter was making a hand gesture associated with “white power” in Facebook photo.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Bird rescue group in Freedom reports death of five eagles since start of 2020, all with elevated levels of lead in blood
It takes a piece of lead the size of a grain of rice to fatally poison a bald eagle, according to the state’s raptor specialist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
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