Waterville Creates has been recommended for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award by the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the Common Threads project. The project aims to invite the community to engage in programming at and around the new Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. Waterville Creates’ project is […]
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Waterville Board of Education finalizes $28.4 million budget
The Waterville Board of Education held a special meeting Wednesday and took a second, final vote to approve a budget that gives salary increases to teachers and educational technicians.
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Grief support group facilitator training to be offered
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area is offering a 20-hour grief support group facilitator training in August. This program will prepare trainees to facilitate grieving children’s peer support groups through the Hope’s Place program as well as facilitate adult grief support groups such as partner loss, grieving parents, infant loss, adults grieving parents, survivors of suicide, […]
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Kick For Cass returns July 9 to Waterville
More than 500 players, including 13 high school soccer teams from around the state, plan to join the return of the 11-hour, continuous soccer game, Kick For Cass, on Saturday, July 9, at Thomas College in Waterville. The annual event is held in honor and in memory of Cassidy Charette, a former midfielder for Messalonskee […]
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Waterville City Council approves $51.6 million city and school budget
Spending increases boost city’s property tax rate by 35 cents per $1,000 worth of assessed valuation, instead of the planned 50 cents.
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Finding Our Voices short documentaries featured in MIFF showings
Two movies starring Maine domestic violence survivors will premiere at the 25th edition of the Maine International Film Festival on Saturday, July 16, in Waterville. The short documentaries will share the stage with the award-winning documentary “And So I Stayed,” about women serving long prison sentences for killing their abusers. The Finding Our Voices films […]
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Eight have applied for the Waterville assistant superintendent job
The Waterville Board of Education on Monday got an update on the search from Superintendent Eric Haley.
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Waterville council to consider proposed $51.7 million budget
The special City Council meeting will be held Tuesday and councilors are expected to vote on a $23.3 million budget for the city and another $28.4 million for schools.
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Go with the flow, Waterville drivers: Sections of downtown roads now open to two-way traffic
Portions of Front and Colby streets now have two-way traffic, and motorists along College Avenue should expect detours as work continues on the city’s $11.2 million downtown revitalization project.
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Waterville demonstrators protest overturn of Roe v. Wade
By late morning, about 30 people carrying signs stood on sidewalks in downtown Waterville, decrying the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying there is recourse: a large voter turnout in the midterm elections.