“MaineLife” host Erin Ovalle visits city for recently aired episode and says she came away impressed with Waterville’s efforts.
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Colby’s Arts Collaborative building project nears completion
Colby College’s Arts Collaborative in downtown Waterville offers a preview into the community hub it hopes to become.
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New Waterville center ‘could be a model — the idea of the arts bringing downtown back to life’
Susan T. Rodriguez, the lead architect for the $18 million art center in downtown Waterville, discusses the building’s design process.
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Thomas, Colby colleges planning in-person 2021 commencement ceremonies
Thomas College’s commencement is scheduled for May 14-15, while Colby’s is planned for May 22-23.
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Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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Colby College receives $1.5 million donation for arts, athletics facilities
The donation by Kate Lucier O’Neil, a 1985 Colby graduate, and her husband, Ford E. O’Neil, will help fund the college’s Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center and the forthcoming Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts.
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After a year of pandemic measures, central Maine colleges see lasting change, hope for the fall
Now that the pandemic has forced colleges to adapt, some are seeing an increased number of graduates and shifting student demographics.
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Colby College students describe ‘unique’ experience living at Lockwood Hotel
About 100 students are calling the downtown hotel home for the 2020-21 school year as the building is being finished at 9 Main St.
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Colby ramps up COVID-19 testing as students return and positive cases increase
Colby College and Thomas College in Waterville have resumed strict testing protocols for the spring semester amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
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Waterville area colleges have plans to keep students safe during the holidays
Thomas College students will return for in-person classes after negative testing while Colby and UMaine Farmington students will finish the semester remotely.