To benefit the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers The Friends of the Maine Children's Home Need Your Support! Applebee's will donate 15% of your check when you dine at their Waterville restaurant on Thursday, December 20th! Please make sure to print off the attached flyer for your meal to count! The Friends use these […]

The Kennebec Valley Chordsmen Barbershop Chorus will present an evening of Christmas carols and beloved songs of the season. Special guests include the First Congregational Church choir, directed by Joanna Nelson and accompanied by David Dean. Admission is free; donations are appreciated. For more information, call Kathy Robitaille, director of the Kennebec Valley Chordsmen, at 542-7699.

In this guided tour, we will highlight some of the endangered, threatened and extinct species found in the museum’s collection. We also, happily, get to talk about some species that have made remarkable recoveries thanks to recent conservation efforts! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Put on your wildlife biologist cap, and hone your observational skills, as we follow the clues find in various birds’ beaks to learn about their lifestyles and behavior. Why do hummingbirds have long, skinny beaks, while the Red Crossbill has a unique, asymmetrical beak? Plus, make a bird craft to take home! Admission: $3 for […]

Have you ever wondered why the sky can appear to be clear blue one day, pink the next? How are clouds formed? And how do pollutants affect our atmosphere? At the end of this program, everyone gets to take home a copy of an awesome educational book from NASA! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for […]

Please note the meeting location is the Chace Community Forum, located on the first floor of the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons at 150 Main Street. Please enter through the doors located on Main Street, across from the Portland Pie Company. Click for links to current/past agendas and minutes

Join community members in a community-wide food drive. Organizations will be creating sculptures of non-perishable food and essential items. Please join us to see creativity in action, vote for your favorite sculpture, and help us reach our goal of collecting 2,000 pounds of food to support local pantries. For more information email Sam.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey […]

National Bird Day was created to promote avian awareness. Nearly 12% of the world’s almost 10,000 bird species are threatened with extinction, and a further 8% are near threatened. Come take a special tour focused on the birds in our collection which are endangered, or have come back from the brink. Learn about the human […]

By William Shakespeare Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war. Director […]

A group of people concerned about food insecurity for area residents is starting a gleaning group. Gleaning, or food rescue, is defined by the Maine Gleaning Network as “gathering of produce after or during an active harvest and donating the produce to humans rather than for compost or for animal feed. The produce gleaned could […]

Join KV Connect, Waterville's young professionals group, for an exciting evening of networking and socialization while helping to support a great cause! Appetizers and drinks will be provided. Donations benefit the Humane Society in the Waterville Area. Waterville GreenDrinks is part of the international GreenDrinks network, which is an informal and volunteer-managed social networking group […]

It’s the post-9/11 U.S. when Tom McCarthy (who was to go on to make the Oscar-winning Spotlight) made this “heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you” about our fear of immigrants. Richard Jenkins notched a Best Actor Oscar nomination as a nerdy Connecticut professor “who seems to move through life in a trance. […]

Business Breakfast Series Brought to you by Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and Thomas College Giovani Twigge, corporate vice president and chief human resources officer at IDEXX, will discuss why traditional approaches are more likely to fail. IDEXX’s corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Giovani Twigge, will speak about attracting and retaining talent at […]

The Prenatal program addresses the current issues faced by couples expecting a child including the use of prescription drugs, alcohol and tobacco during pregnancy; the relationship between healthy pregnancies and proper nutrition; the effects of stress on the baby; ways to keep a healthy sexual relationship; and issues of body image, weight gain and brain […]

Downtown Waterville is home to one of Maine's 32 Opportunity Zones, the nation's newest tax incentive to encourage investment and growth in economically-distressed areas. With over $100 million invested in recent downtown Waterville projects, the program looks to leverage existing investments and major revitalization efforts already underway. Governed by the IRS, the Opportunity Zone (OZ) […]

Hosted by Waterville Historical Society and Redington Museum Join us as Tom Nale and Joe Jabar speak of the Lebanese Heritage in Waterville, particularly Head of Falls.

A six-week pottery class that will teach students the basics of throwing clay on the wheel. The fun starts with clay basics and expands to creating mugs, bowls, plates, and other objects based on student interest. Skills that will be developed include centering, shaping, trimming, handle making, and decoration as well as glazing. The instructor […]

Local residents and visitors are invited to enjoy a day of cross-country skiing and other winter activities at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville on Saturday, January 12.  This free community event, hosted by the City of Waterville, is the second of three Community Ski Free Days scheduled for the 2018-2019 winter season. The Welcome Center […]

Join us in appreciating our remarkable visitor from the Arctic — the Snowy Owl! What adaptations does the Snowy Owl use to survive and thrive in frigid winter weather? Why do we see hundreds of Snowy Owls visiting Maine some winters, and fewer in other years? Plus, make & bring home a special owl craft! […]

Dressed 2 the 9’s, ‪Dean Ford embodies PRINCE with every fiber of his being, giving you a show as close as you will ever get to the real thing. Ford and company perform all the hits you know and love, including the Purple Rain album in its entirety. But, it’s more than just the songs. […]

Guest speaker:  Jackson Gillman, a professional story teller A celebration of nature with an eye to where we fit in and how we can help sustain our world.  Jackson Gillman’s ecology background from the College of the Atlantic informs much of his work, with a wide variety of nature-oriented programs in repertoire.  He has performed […]