Debra Brown’s opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.
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Talk on LandBack Movement, Kennebec region history set for June 15
Mali Obomsawin is the next speaker in the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center’s Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series, set for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 15, in Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan, or by Zoom. Obomsawin will present the living Wabanaki history of the Kennebec River region and its people from before European […]
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Maine Antique Tractor Festival set for Norridgewock June 23-25
NORRIDGEWOCK — The Maine Antique Tractor Club plans to host its Maine Antique Tractor Festival Friday-Sunday, June 23-25, at 351 Waterville Road. The gate opens at noon Friday, and at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, with activities happening all day. The club has completed construction on an agricultural museum at 351 Waterville Road. Groundbreaking took […]
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Waterville seniors heralded for their resilience, civic engagement at 145th graduation ceremony
Waterville Senior High School presented diplomas Thursday night to 111 seniors at Colby College’s Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center.
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Unity public charter school holds first graduation
The first graduating seniors at the Ecology Learning Center accepted their diplomas Thursday in a ceremony held at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association in Unity.
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Sea rise, extreme temperatures expected to send more people to inland Maine, climate expert says
Nathan Phillips, a professor at Boston University, told an audience at a two-day conference in Skowhegan this week that rising sea levels and temperature extremes in the South will displace millions and force migration inland and to the North.
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Winslow High School graduates urged to be ambitious, remember the community in their corner
Ninety-eight seniors received diplomas Wednesday at the school’s commencement exercises at Colby College in Waterville.
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Students at Lawrence High repeat claims that complaints of harassing behavior go unheeded
It’s not the first time such complaints have been raised and school and district officials say that staff have undergone training and investigate all reported incidents.
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Waterville hospital collaborates to introduce new training center for health care workers
Northern Light Inland Hospital announced this week that it joined with online university Purdue Global in opening a simulation center that officials say will give nursing students and others an enhanced training experience.
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Waterville City Council gives preliminary approval to $56.34 million municipal and school budget
The combined budget for 2023-24 represents an increase of $4.8 million from the spending plan approved last year, driven largely by bumps in salaries and rising costs for electricity, fuel and liability insurance.