She graduated from Richmond High School in 2013. Jordan grew up in Jefferson and attended local schools. She was born on February 24, 1994, in Rockport, to Daniel A. Knox, 28, passed away unexpectedly at her home, in Whitefield, on Friday, August 12. At Bertha’s request, there will be no funeral services. She is survived by her four children, Ronnie Knowles, Sheila Knowles, Joseph Knowles and Rose Knights sister, Shirley Clark many grandchildren nieces and nephews. “I think building new, in the long run, will save the taxpayers money,” Rancourt-Thomas said.OAKLAND – Bertha Knowles, 76, passed away on Thursday, August 11, 2022. She also does not want the city to lose annual taxes from the Sentinel building, she said. She said she supports building at Head of Falls but will wait to see what the costs and structure of the building will look like before approving the final plan.Ĭouncilor Karen Rancourt-Thomas, D-Ward 7, said there should be no surprise as to how she will vote: she will support building at Head of Falls, as she has from the beginning. Winslow said Monday that residents do not want to lose the approximate $33,000 in annual taxes the city would lose if the Sentinel building were sold to the city for a police station. Hodsdon Engineers, of Waterville, argued that passenger rail service will be coming to Waterville and building a police station at Head of Falls is not appropriate. “That means Waterville is set aside on rail services,” Myers said.Īt last week’s meeting, Jill Hodsdon, of A.E. He said Councilor Rosemary Winslow, D-Ward 3, made an important point at last week’s council meeting, noting that Lewiston is ahead of Bangor in a race to get passenger rail service to their communities. Myers said Monday that he will vote to build at Head of Falls, “pending changes to the financial picture.”
Myers led the charge several weeks ago to explore more detailed cost estimates of renovating versus building new. “My view is, it’s too much money in this economy, and I might suggest we ask the citizens to begin a petition drive to put it to referendum,” O’Donnell said.Ĭouncilor George Myers Jr., D-Ward 2, changed his position of initially favoring buying and renovating the 15-year-old Sentinel building, which is on The Common across the street from City Hall and the current police station. O’Donnell said he will probably move to ask councilors to vote to reduce the cost for building new unless the city can come up with another way to do the project. “I’m pretty much at my limit at $2.5 million and now they’ve gone up to $3.4 million.” “The only issue I’ve got is, the price keeps going up,” O’Donnell said. Those estimates were given to the council last week.Ĭouncilor John O’Donnell, D-Ward 5, said Monday he leans toward building at Head of Falls.
The council initially approved spending $2.5 million for a police station, but the city’s architect, Port City Architecture, and construction manager, Wright-Ryan Construction, Inc., developed cost estimates ranging from $3 million to $3.4 million. The city is being offered the Sentinel building for $550,000. The other thing is, you don’t have to be an engineer or an architect all it takes is common sense to realize a practically new building doesn’t cost as much to renovate as it does to build a new building.” “One is, the majority of opinion in the community is not to build at Head of Falls. “There are two things that they should be considering,” he said of councilors. Tonight’s meeting will be at 7 in the council chambers at The Center.įour of seven councilors said Monday they plan to vote against buying the Morning Sentinel building at 31 Front St., but Council Chairman Fred Stubbert, D-Ward 1, said he will vote to buy the Sentinel building “strictly because it’ll save the taxpayers a good deal of money - between $500,000 to $1 million.”
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