City officials and college staff members gathered to celebrate a milestone in the revitalization of downtown Waterville.
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Finding creative solutions to challenges in Waterville’s South End
Colby artist-in-residence Theaster Gates meets with residents to brainstorm ways to help improve the neighborhood.
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ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis to get Colby’s Lovejoy Award
MacGillis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, will give the Lovejoy address Oct. 2 and receive an honorary doctorate from the college.
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Colby student sets up text program that directs Houston residents to shelters
Texan Nile Dixon, a computer science and sociology major, has developed a textbot that those affected by Hurricane Harvey’s devastation can access on their cellphones.
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Twenty Colby family members attend reunion at namesake college
The family has had many reunions, but this is the first at the Waterville college named after Gardner Colby.
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First Colby College staffers move into Hains Building in downtown Waterville
The long vacant building was purchased by the college in 2015.
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Colby College receives $475,000 from National Science Foundation for research
The research projects include studying methods to produce chemical compounds and investigating environmental changes that caused a mass extinction 252 million years ago.
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Colby conference highlights conservation, trail work on Maine’s section of the Appalachian Trail
Maine last hosted the Appalachian Trail Conservancy Conference in 1997; since then, those involved in preserving and maintaining the trail have accomplished a lot.
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Maine Appalachian Trail Club does the dirty work ahead of conference
The group demonstrated how to build a privy, a restroom for the trail, in an effort to rebuild dozens of aging privies along Maine’s section of the Appalachian Trail.
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Maine could face higher fetal alcohol syndrome rates, Colby conference professional says
The Northeast Conference on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders brought in medical experts to help build awareness of the lifelong effects on children whose mothers drink during pregnancy.