Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area will offer a 20-hour facilitator training for their grieving children’s program, Hope’s Place, starting Monday, Oct. 21, at the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area’s Community Center, 304 Main St., Waterville. Training will take place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday and Thursdays, Oct. 21, 24, 28 and Nov. 4, and […]
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Waterville downtown Lockwood Hotel construction on schedule
Officials say they want to have the structure of the planned 53-room hotel completed so they can start enclosing the building by Thanksgiving.
Waterville center for grieving children expands to Somerset County
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area receive $10,000 grant to expand Hope’s Place to Somerset County and are collaborating on the services with Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County.
KVCAP to participate in food program
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, 97 Water St., Waterville, has announced its participation in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Children’s meals are available at no separate charge to enrolled children ages birth through 6 years without regard to race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal, and where applicable, […]
Waterville’s Evans takes part in University of Vermont TREK
BURLINGTON, Vt. — John Evans, of Waterville, and more than 270 first-year University of Vermont students, led by 76 upper class leaders began their UVM experience Aug. 17 as part of TREK, a unique, seven-day first year enrichment program sponsored by the University’s Department of Student Life, according to a news release from the university. Evans […]
Mallet to headline AmeriCorps celebration, launch state-wide music project in Waterville
Maine folk legend David Mallett will headline a lineup of Maine-based performers that will help celebrate 25 years of AmeriCorps service in Maine and the release of ‘Heartbeat of Home’ album on Friday, Oct. 11, at Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., in Waterville. The celebration will begin with an alumni reception at 5:30 p.m. […]
Waterville Planning Board considers 75-unit mobile home park
Rick Breton wants to add mobile homes to Countryside Trailer Park which he already owns off West River Road.
Artwork from children in detention camps coming Saturday to Waterville
Mary Dunn, who has traveled to the U.S. and Mexican border, is helping to organize the exhibit, as well as a silent auction fundraiser Oct. 12 at Hathaway Creative Center to help asylum seekers with humanitarian aid and legal services.
Amy Calder: More odd road names
Amy Calder shares emails she received from readers about last week’s column on quirky street names, offering more odd ones.
Yellow Tulip Project plantings set for Oct. 12
Waterville Creates! and The Yellow Tulip Project are teaming up to smash the stigma around mental illness by planting yellow tulips on Saturday, Oct. 12, in community Hope Gardens at the RiverWalk at Head of Falls, 1 Common St., inWaterville; Central Maine Veterans Memorial Park, Roderick Road, in Winslow; and at the Bill and Joan […]