Madeline St. Amour

Staff Writer

Madeline St. Amour covers general news in the towns of Oakland, Winslow, Vassalboro, China and Unity, as well as crime and the new Fiberight plant in Hampden. She started at the Sentinel in the spring of 2016 after graduating from the University at Albany in New York, where she worked as a stringer for the Associated Press at the Capitol bureau covering the minimum wage issue and tuition at public colleges. When she’s not in the newsroom, she enjoys trying new recipes, traveling and hiking.

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Published
February 27, 2017

China residents discuss Causeway improvement proposals at public hearing

The town committee responsible for dispersing tax increment financing funds wants to improve parking and make the area more accessible.
Published
February 27, 2017

One month later, Waterville police program aids handful of people struggling with drug addiction

The new program, Operation HOPE, has been approached by seven people so far, four of whom have already been placed in residential facilities.
Published
February 26, 2017

Waterville car wash traffic problem raises business, road questions

Frustration over back-ups and long waits at J&S Oil on Kennedy Memorial Drive, the city’s only automatic car wash, has highlighted a simmering problem that involves city planning, economic development and police enforcement along one of the main traffic arteries in Waterville.
Published
February 25, 2017

Anti-KKK rally held in Skowhegan in response to fliers advertising a KKK ‘Neighborhood Watch’

About 20 people gathered at the Margaret Chase Smith Bridges to hold up signs protesting the Klan’s reappearance in Maine.
Published
February 25, 2017

New owners have plans for Unity Raceway, but some question if it’s a modern-day fit

While George and Sherry Fernald hope to revive the raceway as a center of the community in the town of Unity, others say it is noisy and no longer matches the vision of what Unity is today.
Published
February 21, 2017

Winslow council enacts temporary ban on marijuana establishments

Councilors also delayed voting on three times, saying they needed more information on proposals to accept applicants to the farm support program and to require annual business registrations.
Published
February 21, 2017

Waterville police ask public to stop lining up on road to enter car wash

The police chief said he has received complaints for weeks about traffic lining up on Kennedy Memorial Drive to enter the car wash at J&S Oil.
Published
February 20, 2017

Some central Maine businesses, workers, already feeling minimum wage increase effect

While restaurants and eateries in Waterville and Augusta, as well as servers, are bracing for the yearly increases, some workers are seeing just how big a difference the $1.50 increase can make.
Published
February 19, 2017

Unity takes first step toward becoming ‘destination’

The town’s Economic Development Committee is working with GrowSmart to get community input on how to revitalize the town.
Published
February 17, 2017

Winslow students volunteer to shovel snow for senior citizens

About 90 teenagers worked around Heartland Estates in Winslow on Friday to clear snow away from hard-to-reach areas for elderly people who had recently called the Town Office asking for help.