Ashley Noel suffered from addiction, loss and post-traumatic stress but ultimately found hope and healing, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville growth council announces inaugural awardees of grant program
WATERVILLE — The Central Maine Growth Council has announced the first tranche of inaugural awardees of its ERIH (Economic Recovery Implementation Hub) grant program. The council has awarded 14 grants to businesses within Kennebec and Somerset counties. Funded through a program of Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development, the council has awarded early-stage businesses […]
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Waterville Senior High School names honor students
Waterville Senior High School has announced the following students were named to its first quarter honor roll for the 2023-24 academic year. Grade 12 — High honors: Qasim Al Jorani, Ixtel Alvarado-Zelaya, Kara Anderson, Mason Anderson, Beatrice Beale Tate, Evan Benway, Samuel Bernier, Britney Blow, Kloe Brown, Madelynn Cimino, Angel Cloutier and Alyssa Curry. Also, Kiara […]
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Waterville retired captain makes calendars to benefit fire department
Scott Holst of Winslow, retired Waterville Fire Department captain, has made 2024 Waterville Fire History Calendars. The calendar was created to raise money for the Consolidated Firefighters of Waterville to support the charities they help each year. These calendars feature rare old photos and are designed to teach the history of the Waterville Fire Department […]
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Waterville board votes to deny mobile home park request to add lots
Two double-wide mobile homes were placed earlier on lots at Countryside Mobile Home Park but it was done without approval of the Planning Board, and on Tuesday the board chose not to retroactively OK the homes, with some members raising concerns with ongoing problems at the park.
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Fairfield concert to benefit Waterville Police Department’s Operation HOPE
The concert is scheduled for Saturday at Lawrence High School and will serve as a fundraiser for a program that helps those addicted to opioids get into treatment facilities.
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Winslow schools to begin stocking overdose-reversing drug naloxone
Administrators say there haven’t been any overdoses at the town’s three public schools and that having the drug on hand is mainly a preventative measure.
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Maine Children’s Home to receive $525K in federal funding
WATERVILLE — Sen. Angus King’s request to the Appropriations Committee for $525,000 of congressional spending was awarded to support Maine Children’s Home’s renovation project designed to confront Maine’s mental health crisis. The project involves significant updates to a 60-year-old building on MCH’s Waterville campus to create trauma-informed spaces for the organization’s clinical counseling program and […]
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Augusta academy dance students perform at Colby College
WATERVILLE — For the second consecutive year, the Advanced Dance Composition and Performance class from Maine Arts Academy of Augusta performed as part of Colby College’s annual Break Burn Build fall dance concert in Waterville. The eight students that participated — Emily Carlton, Lillian Conry, Jade DeWitt, Juliann Emery, Holly Lindeman, Haley Pottle, Lilah Ramirez […]
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Phi Kappa Phi honor society inducts local students
BATON ROUGE, La. — Two local students recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. They are Megan Chamberland of Winthrop, who was initiated at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; and Nicole Hernandez of Waterville, who […]