Work starts this week on new $26 million hotel in downtown Waterville

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Published
July 8, 2019

Work starts this week on new $26 million hotel in downtown Waterville

Heavy equipment for blasting and demolition work was moved Monday onto the site of the future Lockwood Hotel on Main Street.
Published
July 4, 2019

Atlantic Music Festival kicks off at Colby College, eyeing expansion next year

The classical music festival in Waterville will include 23 performances over the month of July, starting Friday.
Published
June 3, 2019

Colby announces $26 million hotel project to start next month

The Lockwood Hotel, with 53 rooms, a restaurant, bar and limestone facade to reflect the city's past, is expected to open in the fall of 2020.
Published
May 23, 2019

Fond memories of Waterville lead actor Ed Harris to pledge $75,000 to art center

Harris, who starred in the 2005 HBO film ‘Empire Falls,’ which was filmed in Waterville, says the city holds a ‘fond place in my heart.’
Published
May 3, 2019

Waterville appeals board upholds rights of Colby students to vote in city

The Voter Registration Appeals Board ruled unanimously that 66 voters whose registrations were challenged were valid on the basis that they had taken oaths of residency and provided proof of physical address.
Published
May 3, 2019

Our View: There’s no question – Maine college students are allowed to vote

College students who live here can cast their ballots here, regardless of where they bank or where they register their car.
Published
May 1, 2019

Waterville board hears voter eligibility appeals

Colby professor and students are among the first to testify to prove their right to vote in city elections.
Published
April 13, 2019

College students saw logs at Colby’s annual Woodsmen Mud Meet

Events range from dry land log birling to team crosscut.
Published
April 9, 2019

Colby College announces $2 million donation from trustee to support data science, women’s lacrosse

Rick McVey, trustee and parent of alumnae from the classes of 2012 and 2016, gave the funds, according to the Waterville college.
Published
April 2, 2019

Poliquin denounces ranked-choice voting, addresses student voting in talk at Colby

Former U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin said the voter-approved ranked-choice process was a "scam" and that Colby students have the legal right to vote in local elections if they obtain a Maine driver's license within 30 days of living in the state.