Former Waterville City Councilor Phil Bofia, a current charter commission member, is organizing a solidarity march that will end at Castonguay Square downtown.
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Katey Caron awarded $1,000 scholarship by Maine State Society Foundation
Katey Caron of Waterville is one of eight high achieving Maine students attending four-year colleges and universities in Maine selected to receive merit-based scholarships totaling $10,000 by the Board of Directors of the Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. Foundation, according to a news release from Jessica Strelitz Stewart, scholarship chairwoman of the foundation. Caron, […]
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Hardy Girls Healthy Women seeks board members
WATERVILLE — Hardy Girls Healthy Women is accepting applications for its Girls Advisory Board — a group of 16 to 20 high school youth in Maine who are passionate about girls’ and women’s empowerment. The deadline for freshmen through seniors to apply is Monday, June 15, according to a news release from Kelli McCannell, executive […]
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Maine Voices: The question white parents don’t face – ‘Why do they hate us?’
George Floyd’s murder traumatized my daughter. White Americans should stop ignoring the racist acts and attitudes that helped lead to it.
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Area students named to University of Vermont dean’s list
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The following area students were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at the University of Vermont. They include: Emily Robbins of Bowdoin, Kailey Bell of Palmyra, John Evans of Waterville, Sarah Cooper of Dresden, and Sally Granholm of Winslow.
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Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce to host business breakfast June 11
JobsinME.com and JobsInTheUS.com CEO Saïd Eastman to speak.
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Waterville council votes to add $1 million bond toward downtown transformation project
Councilors on Tuesday also voted to close part of Silver Street to allow three restaurants extra outdoor dining space and agreed not to open the municipal pool this season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Waterville City Hall reopens to public after 2-month-plus coronavirus closure
Waterville City Hall, closed to the public since March 15 because of the coronavirus pandemic, reopened officially and is open to the public from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Waterville Planning Board delays vote on solar farm requests
The Waterville Planning Board lost its livestream link to its meeting Monday and decided to postpone voting on whether to recommend rezoning properties on County and Webb roads to allow for solar farms.
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Amy Calder: Making it work, during a pandemic
Erica Pelotte bought a restaurant business in downtown Waterville in August and had to close in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, but she has reopened and is working harder than ever to make the eatery successful.