The Waterville Public Library is organizing the JUMP RIGHT IN Volunteer Fair, to be held at the Library on Saturday, September 28. Organizations who are interested in occupying a free table can contact the fair's organizers at 2019volunteerfair@gmail.com. This event is an opportunity for local groups to greet potential volunteers and detail the nature of […]

Live Middle Eastern Music By George Maslouf and His Band, Noon – 4:00! Games and Dancing! Authentic Lebanese Cuisine, With a Cash Bar!

Come learn about the fascinating lives of Maine’s raptors! We will cover adaptations, habitats, migration, calls, and more. Then, see if you can be a successful hunter too — with a museum scavenger hunt! Admission: $3 for adults, $1 for children.

With songs by Grammy® and Tony® winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray) and book by Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), this ‘dazzling, fabulously sassy and uplifting’ (Time Out) award-winning musical celebrates a joyous story of Brit grit to high-heeled hit, as it takes you […]

Bess Koffman, assistant professor of geology, studies past changes in Earth’s climate system using a combination of field and laboratory approaches. She is interested primarily in understanding how and why the atmospheric circulation has changed through time and the impacts these changes have had on terrestrial and marine environments. Earth’s atmospheric circulation influences large-scale climate […]

Join photographer Séan Alonzo Harris, Patricia King of Waterville Creates!, Olivia Fountain of the Colby Museum, and two of Harris’s local portrait subjects to learn about his citywide photography exhibition. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby College Museum of Art.

At least 21 journalists have been killed in Russia since Putin became president in 2000, and 58 since the early 1990s. Also given state control of the media, renewed protests against the administration, and growing economic and political problems at home, what are the prospects for journalists in present-day Russia who wish to write about […]

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) is a tribal attorney based in Washington, D.C., the national campaigns director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels on a range of issues impacting indigenous peoples. She recently […]

Come to hear leading experts on the subject use a major historical event, the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, as a gateway to discuss a key geopolitical issue today: the rise of Russia and resurgence of Russian expansionism. Josef Pazderka is a Czech journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of Aktualne.cz, a leading Czech news […]

Legendary artist Graham Nash is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee - with Crosby, Stills, and Nash and with the Hollies. He was also inducted twice into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and with CSN, and he is a GRAMMY Award winner.

Join us each month to learn about a different country through crafts, activities, video and more! Geared towards grades K-5.

Inspired by the I am Not a Stranger exhibit, students will take photographs of each other that will then be rendered by the 3D printer as a unique stamp. For ages 7 -12. Cost: $14 per session. Snacks included. Scholarships available. Click to register.

Join the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce October 3 for the Coldwell Banker Plourde Super Raffle - a fun-filled night full of networking with area business professionals.  In celebration of Coldwell Banker Plourde Real Estate doing business for 30 years in the Waterville area, hundreds of prizes have been donated by Chamber member businesses to be […]

Waterville | Vol. 33 October 3, 2019 Waterville Opera House Reception: 6:20pm | Presentations: 7:20pm Suggested Donation: $5 PechaKucha Night Waterville V.33 Emcee: Shannon Haines Presenters: Emily Davis – Anguish Sarah Doremus – Oh, Come On, We All Worry About That! Chris Kein – An Unlikely Artist? Heléna Melone – Silk Painting: Praxis Theory Olga […]

Producer Martin Smith will be present to introduce a new, important episode of one of TV’s most honored show. One year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a two-hour Frontline documentary investigates the rise and rule of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (MBS). Correspondent Martin Smith, who has covered the Middle […]

Presented by Scott Hill, Dojo Digital Friday, October 4th Thomas College, Waterville Learn everything you need to know about website best practices and how to use Google products to optimize your online presence. If you own a website – and you should – you don’t want to miss this informative presentation. Click Here to Register

Nick Battista, senior policy officer at the Island Institute, will present on the work being done by the Island Institute around community building, responding to climate/economic drivers, and the future of coastal communities and the work they are doing with fishermen.  This talk will cover why and how they do this work and the strategies […]

Journalists hold deep commitments to serve their communities, even during the darkest moments. In Annapolis, Md., this meant giving their lives when their newsroom was attacked. In Pittsburgh, journalists covering the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting dealt with their trauma as well as that of Pittsburgh as it was their neighbors and friends who were […]

Join us for a duck themed storytime. We will have stories, songs, and a craft. Geared towards ages 0-7.

The 67th Lovejoy Award will honor the journalists who sacrificed their lives in 2018. The event will feature a discussion with Martin Smith, a veteran filmmaker and journalist who recently produced a Frontline documentary on the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and Hala Al-Dosari, the Washington Post’s inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Fellow and a […]

Please join us for a fall evening among friends to enjoy a variety of bourbons. Tickets are limited! Dinner Menu: Bourbon Glazed Salmon Filet w/ Prosciutto Wrapped Grilled Asparagus Garlic Roasted Fingerling Potatoes Topped off with a Cinnamon Bread Pudding w/ A Bourbon Cream Sauce Vegetarian: Seitan With A Brown Sugar Bourbon Glaze & Sauteed […]

Looking for your next favorite book? Stop by the Waterville Public Library during library hours from Saturday, October 5th through Saturday October 19th and check out the Fireplace Room on the 1st Floor, for our Fall Book Sale featuring a wide selection of materials for all ages! The sale officially opens at 10am on Saturday […]

In collaboration with Maine Craft Weekend, the Colby College Museum of Art will provide additional tours and activities related to the Wíwənikan…the beauty we carry exhibition featuring contemporary art by basketmakers, canoe makers, carvers, painters, and beadworkers of the First Nations people of what is now Maine and Maritime Canada. All tours and activities are […]