The gift from college trustee Marieke Rothschild and her husband, Jeff Rothschild, will support three of the college’s highest priorities — financial aid, the arts and health and wellness.
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Girl injured in Waterville drive-by shooting leaves hospital
Emahleeah Frost, 7, headed back to Waterville after spending nearly a week at Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she was treated after being struck by a bullet in her home by a drive-by shooter.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State
John Dalton, president of Northern Light Inland Hospital, to retire
Terri Vieira, president of Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield and Northern Light C.A. Dean Hospital in Greenville, will replace Dalton.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Statewide film festival, a celebration of Maine’s bicentennial, opens in Waterville
The Maine in the Movies film festival is a 10-day festival that will screen films in 17 communities across the state from the past 110 years that were shot or are set in Maine.
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‘She’s very lucky,’ mother of 7-year-old Waterville drive-by shooting victim says
Emahleeah Frost is recovering in the pediatric intensive care unit of Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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Child shot inside home in Waterville’s South End neighborhood, police say
A 7-year-old girl is taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Maine Medical Center. Waterville police block off Summer Street between Gray and Gold streets and go door-to-door asking residents if they have cameras.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: This winter, Maine should say ‘no’ to ICE
The expanding presence of the federal immigration enforcement agency threatens some of the very families Maine should find a way to welcome.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Lunders to help fund art collaborative buildings in Waterville
The philanthropists are donating $3 million to the effort to renovate the buildings at 14 and 20 Main Street where offices of the Lunder Institute will share space with artist studios, and exhibit and performance areas.
Posted inLocal & State
Woman injured in Waterville tubing accident
Tami Paquet of Unity was sliding down a hill at Quarry Road Recreation Area when the inflatable tube she was on apparently struck a bump and she was ejected and taken to a hospital.
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Colby College isolating community members who visited China ‘out of an abundance of caution’
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak sweeping mainland China, the Waterville college said “none of the individuals in isolation have any symptoms of the virus, and they are being monitored per CDC guidelines.”