Five-year grant creates 40 new openings across partnership settings in both childcare centers, family childcare homes.
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Waterville’s Maine International Film Festival announces opening night film, achievement award winner
The 22nd annual festival that runs July 12-21 will open with “Blow the Man Down,” a movie made in Maine with a mix of “dark humor, suspense, saltiness,” according to organizers.
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Attorneys argue over Maine ban on public funding of religious schools
The lawsuit questions why districts can pay tuition to outside public and private schools, but are barred from paying public funding to religious schools.
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Fire that damaged Waterville house caused by electrical problem, official says
A fire early Saturday morning that damaged a house on Mae Terrace and displaced a family of five was electrical in nature and started inside a wall on the second floor, officials said.
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Thomas College dean’s list
Thomas College in Waterville has announced the following students were named to its 2019 spring dean’s list. President’s List (3.80-4.0 grade point average): Kerri L. Abbott, Victoria Rose Adams, Jose Antonio Afonso Luis, Ryan Chase Ambrozy, Evan Arsenault, Kerriarna Mae Asselin, Alisha Baral, Arynne K. Barns, Amber Dawn Beaulieu, Faith Marie Beaulieu, Keileigh Alicea Belanger, […]
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Amy Calder: Grateful for the farmer
Central Maine farmers work hard and have little or no time off, but they live in paradise.
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Waterville yoga studio expands programming going into 10th year
School Street Yoga offered a free day of classes Sunday to celebrate the occasion.
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Maine’s styrofoam ban met with mixed response from Waterville-area businesses
The law, effective Jan. 2021, could increase prices, but it brings a sense of job security to over 500 employees at the Huhtamaki paper products plant.
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Waterville early learning program opens new classroom with $4 million grant
A grant awarded to Educare Central Maine in March will go toward the classroom as well as to seven other childcare providers in the Augusta, Waterville and Skowhegan areas.
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Family showers at Boys & Girls Club, forgoes electric lighting
To cut costs, the Waterville residents even decide to flush their toilets less frequently.