CHELSEA — An open house and registration night for a new childcare program offered by the Chelsea Boys & Girls Club will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Chelsea School cafeteria.

Childcare will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the school. It will be available before school, starting at 6:30 a.m., and after school until 5:30 p.m., for kindergarten through eighth -grade students at Chelsea School. Childcare will be offered all day on vacation weeks, workshop days and during summer vacation.

The Chelsea Boys & Girls Club is a licensed state of Maine child care program. All forms of the state of Maine child care funding assistance are accepted. Registration forms and a program handbook are available on the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Gardiner’s website, www.club4me.org. For more information, call Ingrid Stanchfield or Dawna Gregoire at 582-8458.