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Jerry Wilson, a maintenance worker at the Hathaway Creative Center in Waterville, moves panels into place Wednesday while
updating a sign listing businesses at the center.
WATERVILLE
Council delays vote on rental ordinance
Landlords, tenants pack chamber, say idea could violate privacy
BY AMY CALDER
Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE — The City
Council was not ready Tuesday
night to vote to adopt a pro-
posed rental registration ordi-
nance, deciding instead to post-
pone the matter until March 7.
The 7-0 vote to table any ac-
tion followed a lengthy and
sometimes contentious debate
between some councilors and
Daniel Bernier, a lawyer rep-
resenting members of the Cen-
tral Maine Apartment Owner’s
Association. Councilors took
an initial vote Jan. 3 to approve
the proposed ordinance, which
requires two votes for adoption.
Modeled after a Lewiston or-
dinance, Waterville’s proposal
is intended to ensure the city
has safe housing, the code en-
forcement office can enforce
Man on trial for allegedly shooting former friend
Gardiner resident’s first trial in September was ruled mistrial by judge
BY KEITH EDWARDS
Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — Dylan Ketcham
shot his former friend, Jordan
Johnson, in the head with a
handgun, killing him. Then
he brutally attacked another
former friend, Caleb Trudeau,
with a machete, striking him
repeatedly in the head, neck,
armpit and both arms and al-
Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy, right, holds a side bar
most killing him, too, a state
with counsel during the murder and attempted murder trial of Dylan
prosecutor said as the second
Ketcham on Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augus-
murder trial of Ketcham got
underway Wednesday. ta. The Gardiner man is accused of attacking two former friends,
The violent incident in Janu- shooting and killing one and nearly severing the wrists of the other
ary 2020 left Trudeau’s hands with a machete during a 2020 altercation in Gardiner.
nearly severed from his wrists
and resulted in potentially life- men had recently threatened
long injuries. to beat Ketcham with a base-
But defense lawyers argued ball bat, and arranged to meet
this week at the Capital Ju- Ketcham that night so the pair
dicial Center in Augusta that could attack and rob him, ac-
Ketcham of Gardiner was cording to lawyer Ian L’Heu-
scared of the pair and had good reux. Ketcham felt he needed
reasons to arm himself before to be able to defend himself,
the confrontation. One of the according to L’Heureux.
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T
he 7-0 vote to table any action followed a
lengthy and sometimes contentious debate
between some councilors and a lawyer repre-
senting members of the Central Maine Apart-
ment Owner’s Association.
regulations and property own-
ers have reasonable time to
correct deficiencies, according
to City Council Chairwoman
Rebecca Green, D-Ward 4.
Municipal leaders in Augusta
have expressed similar con-
cerns with aging rental prop-
erties there, with the Augusta
City Council considering a sys-
tem to more regularly inspect
those properties.
Owners of Waterville rental
properties would be required,
as part of the ordinance, to
register their properties and
provide the name and mailing
Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
Wednesday marked the
second start to a trial of the
23-year-old Ketcham on mur-
der, attempted murder and
aggravated assault charges,
after a judge declared the first
trial a mistrial in September.
Superior Court Justice Mi-
chaela Murphy made the rul-
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address of the legal owner; the
name, mailing address and pri-
mary telephone number for the
property manager; and the ad-
dress and telephone number of
an emergency contact. Owners
would also have to sign off on
a safety checklist, saying their
properties adhere to the items
on the list.
Those who do not register
would be fined $50 for the first
month, $100 a month for the
next two to six months and $200
for months seven through 12.
Landlords and some tenants
COUNCIL, PAGE A4
ing after determining that
gruesome body camera foot-
age from Gardiner police of-
ficers as they arrived at the
crime scene had disturbed
some jurors. The jurors had
not been asked during the se-
lection process whether view-
ing such videos would impact
their ability to be impartial,
prompting concerns that the
trial would be unfair.
A new jury — eight men and
eight women — was selected
earlier this week. This time,
Murphy did not allow some of
the previous video footage to
be shown in court to avoid re-
peating the procedural error.
State prosecutors said
Wednesday that Johnson and
Trudeau had no idea Ketcham
had armed himself when they
went to meet him in the ear-
ly-morning hours of Jan. 25,
2020, in a neighborhood near
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ABORTION
Bishop:
Mills’ bill
radical,
extreme BY PENELOPE OVERTON
Portland Press Herald
Bishop Robert Deeley of the Roman Cath-
olic Diocese of Portland came out swinging
Wednesday against Gov. Mills’ proposed bill
to expand abortion access in Maine, calling
it a radical, extreme and evil attempt to nor-
malize a horrific stance that every life is not
sacred.
In a prepared statement, Deeley said Mills’
proposal to expand the state law to allow
abortion with a doctor’s approval beyond
22 to 24 weeks — the point
when a fetus is viable —
left him with an astonished
mind and pained heart.
“This is no longer a dis-
cussion of heartlessly de-
stroying a fetus, which is
immoral on its own,” Dee-
ley said. “This is an unborn
child. Everything is ready
for birth. It is beyond trou- DEELEY
bling to see how denying
the existence of a human
life has become so casual for this governor
and members of the legislature.”
Mills has said that a woman’s rights are not
dispensable, he wrote. “If only she had the
same compassion for children.”
On Tuesday, Mills joined Democrats and
abortion access advocates to unveil four
abortion bills. In addition to her bill, the pro-
posed legislation would eliminate abortion
health insurance copays, prevent towns
from preempting state abortion laws and
protect abortion providers who treat out-of-
state patients.
BISHOP, PAGE A4
First March
for Life set in
post-Roe US
BY DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
Anti-abortion activists will have multiple
reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for
unease — when they gather Friday in Wash-
ington for the annual March for Life.
The march, which includes a rally drawing
abortion opponents from across the nation,
has been held annually since January 1974
“
— a year after the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Roe v.
Wade decision established
a nationwide right to abor- It’s
tion.
This year’s gathering almost like
— 50 years after that de-
cision — will be the first the old wild,
since the high court struck wild West...
down Roe in a momentous
ruling last June. everything is
Since then, 12 Republi-
can-governed states have still shaking
implemented sweeping
bans on abortion, and sev-
out. ”
eral others seek to do the CAROL TOBIAS
same. But those moves NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
have been offset by other COMMITTEE PRESIDENT
developments. Abortion
opponents were defeated
in votes on ballot measures in Kansas, Michi-
gan and Kentucky. State courts have blocked
several bans from taking effect. And myriad
efforts are underway to help women in abor-
tion-ban states either get abortions out of
state or use the abortion pill for self-managed
abortions.
“It’s almost like the old wild, wild West …
everything is still shaking out,” said Carol
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