In conjunction with National Garden Week (June 6-12) Waterville Creates announces the
Sunflower Project, a collaborative community-wide initiative designed to engage everyone from novice gardeners to experienced horticulturists in creating moments of sunshine in the urban landscape, feeding local birds and wildlife, and providing pollinating stations for bees.
The Sunflower Project will kick off with free seedlings, an inaugural planting of flowers, and a reading of
The Sunflower House by Eve Bunting at the first Art in the Park, in conjunction with the Waterville Farmers’ Market, on Thursday, June 17, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at Head of Falls.
Inspired by the National Garden Bureau’s declaration of 2021 as
In Waterville, the Forest J. Pare Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1285 held a morning ceremony at Castonguay Square, next to City Hall, and a wreath-laying ceremony at the Two Cent Bridge at Head of Falls, along the Kennebec River.
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Waterville returning to its roots as credit union, students plant elm trees
New Dimensions Federal Credit Union planted an elm tree in 2020 and is encouraging others to do the same.
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WATERVILLE In the 1930s, Silver Street was lined with elm trees, earning the city the nickname Elm City.
The newly planted elm tree at New Dimensions Federal Credit Union in Waterville.
Photo courtesy of New Dimensions Federal Credit Union
In the 1960s and ’70s, construction to develop Waterville began and destroyed more of the famed trees. The ultimate destruction of the trees came from Dutch Elm disease spreading.
New Waterville art center on track to open with board approval, demolition underway
The Paul J. Schupf Art Center is set to open in December 2022, with plans also calling for improved access to the Waterville Opera House through a new skywalk.
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Crooker Construction begins demolition of The Center in downtown Waterville on Tuesday, making way for the new Paul J. Schupf Art Center. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE The Paul J. Schupf Art Center at 93 Main St. downtown is on track to open now that the Planning Board has given its final approval and demolition work has started on the existing building there.