The Happy Quilters of Winslow plan to hold a craft fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, at the Alfond Youth & Community Center, 126 North St. in Waterville. Proceeds will benefit youth programs at the center, according to a news release from the center. The quilters have been quilting and donating […]
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Reporting Aside: Former sports bar in Waterville becomes ‘a safe space in the storm’
Most communities are fortunate to have one place where people can get a free, hot meal, but the Waterville-Winslow area now has two, Amy Calder writes.
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Week In Photos April 22-29, 2022
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
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Children’s Discovery Museum, artist partner to make exhibit pieces
The museum plans to launch a capital campaign with activities-packed family “FUNdraising” day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 30.
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Hathaway women project seeks stories, photos, artifacts
WATERVILLE — Artist Maggie Libby, Colby Special Collections and Archives staff, and Paula J. Raymond, a South End neighbor and partner in the Hathaway Women project, are gathering the stories of the women who worked at the Hathaway shirt factory. Women of the Hathaway are invited to share their memories, stories, pictures and artifacts from […]
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Oakland voters to decide at annual meeting whether to go to full-time fire operation
The Town Meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Messalonskee High School Performing Arts Center.
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Skowhegan center plans to hold 2nd Wabanaki series talk
The Skowhegan History House is set to hold the second of the Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, with Darren Ranco at Tewksbury Hall on Island Avenue. Ranco, a Penobscot Tribal member, is an associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American research at the University of Maine at Orono, […]
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Firefighters battle flames at residential building in Waterville
College Avenue closed temporarily Wednesday afternoon as firefighters respond to blaze at Home Place Inn. No injuries were reported.
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Skowhegan officials look to transform downtown lot in effort to boost interest in riverfront project
The nonprofit group Main Street Skowhegan plans to develop a portion of a parking lot as green space for people to congregate along the banks of the Kennebec River near where the Skowhegan River Park is to be developed.
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Waterville Planning Board considers proposal to convert vacant building into housing for homeless
Board votes 7-0 Tuesday to recommend the City Council rezone 8 Highwood St., a former office building, to allow for apartments for families and seniors, as well as “crisis housing” for homeless people awaiting permanent housing.