First Annual Meeting of The Waterville Community Land Trust   Location:  the Eskelund Center, a small red brick building on the campus of The Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers. Guest Speaker: Mayor Isgro Revitalization of Waterville All are welcome!

Back by popular demand! With 5 Grammy Awards, 15 nominations, millions of record sales worldwide and thousands of sold out performances, rock blues icon Robert Cray is considered “one of the greatest guitarists of his generation.” Cray started playing guitar in his early teens. By the age of 20, Cray had decided to form his […]

        Leading Women's Luncheon June 2, 2015 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM O'Brien's Event Center (Best Western Plus) in Waterville Register Now! Join us in welcoming Theo Kalikow as our Leading Women's Luncheon speaker. Theo Kalikow grew up in Swampscott, Mass. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Chemistry, and holds […]

March marked Lady Borton’s fiftieth year working with Việt Nam, her forty-fifth since first working for the American Friends Service Committee in South Việt Nam, and her fortieth since her time in North Việt Nam. For many years, Lady was the “dean” of the INGO community in Việt Nam. As she says, “I’ve made more […]

8:00 AM: Bird Walk — Bring your binoculars! 1:00 PM: Trail walk for “Snack Stand,” an installation by artist David Borden This year, our National trails Day is extra special with an installation by an artist guest, David Buckley Borden who installed a special art project on our trails. Borden is partnering with Trifecta Editions […]

We'll be celebrating National Trails Day starting at 10 a.m. at the new access road for the East Kennebec Trail - 758 Benton Ave, Winslow.  Come park in the new parking area by the river and check out the many improvements to the trail, That access road, by the way, is called Bob & Ernie's […]

“One Light, Many Candles” is a multi-faith program in word and song reflecting the diversity and integrity of individual faith seeking a spiritual global community. “The embrace of ‘God’ is vast, able to exceed all our definitions and expectations,” says Betty Stookey. “Can we unlock our certainties and open the way with in for acceptance […]

Support the Summer Camp Scholarship Program of the Maine Children's Home and grab a good bargain at the Friends' Annual Yard Sale.

June 11, 12, 13 at 7:00pm June 14 at 2:00pm Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. Worried that Felix will try something desperate, his best friend Oscar Madison, himself in the process of being divorced by his wife, invites Felix to move in with him. Within a […]

Carnival at the Head of Falls:  The rumors are true! Smokey's Greater Shows will be making a comeback at the Head of Falls (just like all those years ago!) for a fundraiser for the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers. The carnival will be held Thursday through Sunday, June 11-14. The hours will be Thursday […]

Maine's export successes are not just being achieved by large multinational companies. More and more small and family businesses are getting involved in the international marketplace and finding their global niche. Janine Cary, President of the Maine International Trade Center will discuss local trends in Maine trade and how businesses are reaching out beyond regional […]

Friday, June 12, 4:45 p.m. Saturday, June 13, 8:00 a.m. Sunday, June 14, 8:00 a.m. The Maine Conference for Jewish Life is a pluralistic opportunity for superior Jewish learning and joyous celebration in central Maine. Living far from America’s major urban centers (and from one another), Jews in northern New England rarely gain access to […]

It's time for the second Union Coffeehouse of the summer of 2015. We have an exciting group headlining this month — BRIO! BRIO is a trio of talented entertainers who will present an eclectic selection of original songs, creative covers, and quirky classical derring-do. Spicing it all up with invented moments of unplanned music, the […]

Help support the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter and pick up a bargain at the same time!

Join in the free celebration with a barbecue and cake, children's activities, a bounce house, a climbing wall, a petting zoo, story book characters, and more! Click for more info

Come celebrate the summer solstice and view the sun’s surface! In the USA and some other areas in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice marks the first day of summer. At L.C. Bates, you can look through a telescope safely at our sun, try out fun sun activities, and make your own sun model to […]

From his Dove Award winning gospel albums to his genre-defining Southern rock anthems and his CMA Award-winning country hits, few artists have left a more indelible mark on America's musical landscape than Charlie Daniels.  An outspoken patriot, beloved mentor to young artists and still a road warrior at age 77, Charlie has parlayed his passion […]

  NEW DATE: Broadcast of Bolshoi Ballet's Ivan the Terrible Sunday, June 28th, 2015 at 12:55pm broadcast from The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow Waterville Opera House, 1 Common Street Music Sergei Prokofiev Libretto Yuri Grigorovich Choreography Yuri Grigorovich As young Ivan IV is crowned, he has to choose one of the 13 Boyar daughters to […]

The Waterville/Winslow Interfaith Council hosts an evening of lament for the shooting in Charleston, SC. Participants will gather, as they are moved to do so, in small groups to work on writing their own laments, based on models found in Biblical Psalms. People of all faiths, or none, are welcome.

  PECHAKUCHA NIGHT WATERVILLE :: VOLUME 17     THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2015   PECHAKUCHA NIGHTS HAPPEN IN OVER 800 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD   Be a part of it. Creativity. Passionate living. The art of concise presentations and you.     PKN Waterville Volume 17   Thursday July 9, 2015     Colby College […]

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During the 10 days of the festival we show nearly 100 films, representing the best independent and international cinema. Audiences also have opportunities to meet and talk with some of the people behind the movies – directors, producers, writers, musicians. Screenings take place at Railroad Square Cinema and the Waterville Opera House. See MIFF website […]

We will be having a special event to celebrate how our ancestors held social events around food: At 10 a.m., we will make and taste homemade donuts. At 11 a.m., we will have an old-fashioned taffy pull.  Come and see taffy made and help with the pulling and eating. At 1 p.m., we will make […]