The Skowhegan Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registrations for youth basketball, vacation camps, adult pickleball, Mystery Lunches and all of its other winter programs. A complete brochure is available at the center, online at skowhegan.org and on its Facebook page. For more information, call 207-474-6901.
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Posted inCommunity, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
Christmas program in need of pajamas, clothing for children
WATERVILLE — Maine Children’s Home is in need of donations of brand new pajamas and clothing for Maine children receiving gifts from MCH’s Christmas Program. The program reports that it is receiving applications from families faster than it is receiving donations of needed gift items. MCH is a 122-year-old nonprofit that provides a variety of […]
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Posted inCommunity, Morning Sentinel
Waterville enhances landscape with 10 new maple trees
In May, Waterville was awarded a grant under the Project Canopy Assistance Program administered by the Maine Forest Service. The week of Nov. 8, workers from Parks and Recreation planted 10 sugar and red maple trees in Moor and Grove Street playgrounds in the south end, Purnell Wrigley Ball Field on Matthews Avenue, and downtown […]
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville council votes to spend COVID-19 relief funds, but holds off on employee bonus decision
Some city councilors on Monday weren’t keen on approving COVID-related bonuses for city workers, at least until a special committee had had a chance to meet.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Waterville board chair tells anti-mask activist that schools will follow health guidelines
Nick Blanchard, founder of the group Patriots with Attitude, spoke to the Waterville Board of Education on Monday, asking what can be done to get schools to remove the mask-wearing mandate.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Winthrop athletes ready to move on to winter season
The transition to basketball started Monday, the first day of winter practices, for players from the Ramblers’ title-winning field hockey team and state runner-up football squad.
Posted inNation & World, News
Killer asteroids abound and NASA is ready to do something about it
For the first time, NASA plans to launch a space probe into an asteroid to alter its speed and course.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
EU considers booster doses of J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine
The EU drug regulator said it was considering an application from J&J to recommend booster doses of the J&J vaccine for adults 18 and over, at least two months after they were first immunized.
Posted inNation & World
How COVID shots for kids help prevent dangerous new variants
Each infection gives the virus another opportunity to mutate. Protecting a new, large chunk of the population anywhere in the world limits those opportunities.
Posted inNation & World
Florida clears Groveland Four of 1949 rape of white woman
Florida has formally cleared four Black men who were falsely accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago