Waterville is a city in Kennebec County,Maine,United States,on the west bank of the Kennebec River. A college town,the city is home to Colby College,a NESCAC college,and Thomas College.
The Maine Republican Party is an affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Maine. It was founded in Strong,Maine,on August 7,1854. The party currently does not control the governor's office or either chamber of the Maine Legislature,nor either of Maine's two U.S. House. The only federal elected office that the party controls is one of Maine's two U.S. Senate seats,currently held by Susan Collins.
The Morning Sentinel is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville,Maine. Printed at the Portland Press Herald press in South Portland,Maine,it covers cities and towns in parts of Franklin,Kennebec,Penobscot and Somerset counties.
Clinton Amos Clauson was an American politician who served as the 66th governor of Maine from January 1959 until his death in December of that year. A Democrat,Clauson previously held office in Waterville,Maine,where he practiced chiropractic,including serving as the 35th mayor of Waterville from 1956 to 1957.
Sarah Strohmeyer is an American author of eighteen crime novels and humorous books about relations between men and women. She is best known for her Bubbles Yablonsky series about a Pennsylvania hairdresser who is drawn into solving various crimes and murders.
The 2008 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 4,2008,and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Maine is one of two states in the U.S. that instead of all of the state's four electors of the Electoral College to vote based upon the statewide results of the voters,two of the individual electors vote based on their congressional district because Maine has two congressional districts. The other two electors vote based upon the statewide results. See below in the section of Electors for more information.
Paul Richard LePage is American businessman and politician who served as the 74th governor of Maine from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the mayor of Waterville,Maine,from 2004 to 2011 and as a city councilor for Waterville from 1998 to 2002.
Colleen Madigan is an American politician and social worker from Maine. Under the name Colleen Lachowicz,the Democrat from Waterville was elected to the Maine Senate from the 25th district. Her race attracted international attention when the Republican Party of Maine issued press releases condemning her for playing the online video game World of Warcraft,claiming her "disturbing alter-ego" and "time-consuming double life" made her unfit to hold public office. She was defeated for re-election two years later by Republican Scott Cyrway.
Theodora June Kalikow is an American academic,university president,author,and women's rights advocate. Holder of a master's degree and PhD in philosophy,she taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University for 17 years before becoming Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 she was Dean of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. She then served as 13th President of the University of Maine at Farmington from 1994 to 2012,and Interim President of the University of Southern Maine from 2012 to 2014. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2002.
Ayla Reynolds is an American child from Waterville,Maine,who disappeared,aged 19 months,on December 16,2011. She was last seen at 8:00 p.m. that night in her bed by a family member,but was not there when her father checked the next morning. The case was the largest criminal investigation in Maine's history and the third largest search for a missing child in the state's history,perhaps exceeded by the intensive search for the Mott children in Baxter State Park in August 1965.
Richard J. "Spike" Carey was an American politician from Maine. Carey served as an Alderman,Councilman,and as the longest serving Mayor of Waterville,Maine from 1970 to 1978. From 1967 to 1978,Carey also represented Waterville in the Maine House of Representatives. He served in the Maine Senate from 1992 to 2000. In 2004,he ran again for the State Senate against incumbent Chandler Woodcock and lost. Carey was also the first Town Manager for the Town of Belgrade,Maine. He later served on the Town of Belgrade Board of Selectmen.
Joseph M. Jabar is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 2009 to 2024. He was appointed to the bench in 2009,after serving as a judge on the Superior Court. He was not reappointed to serve on the court and resigned on January 31,2024.
Sharon H. Abrams is an American nonprofit executive. She was the executive director of the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers,a nonprofit agency in Waterville,Maine,from 1992 to 2015. She began working at the Home as a teacher in 1973 and was subsequently promoted to program head,assistant executive director,and executive director. Since retiring from the latter position,she continues to work at the Home as a volunteer and social worker. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2004.
Maine Children's Home (MCH) (also known as Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers) is a nonprofit agency in Waterville,Maine,that provides education,counseling,adoption,day care,and early childhood education services for pregnant teens and teen parents. Founded as an orphanage in 1899 and incorporated as the Maine Children's Home Society in 1901,it began dealing solely with adoptions in 1915. It merged with the Maine branch of The Home for Little Wanderers of Massachusetts in 1962,creating the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers. In 1973 it introduced an "alternative" high school program for pregnant teens and teen parents.
Laurie Gagnon Lachance is an American economist and college administrator. Since 2012,she has been the president of Thomas College in Waterville,Maine,and is the first woman to fill that post. She was previously the first woman Maine State Economist and the first woman president of the Maine Development Foundation. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
Ninetta May "Nettie" Runnals was an American academic and college administrator. She served as Dean of Women at Colby College in Waterville,Maine,her alma mater,for 27 years,advocating for gender equality for women students and faculty members. She also helped raise significant funding for a Women's Union on the Mayflower Hill campus,which was renamed Runnals Union in her honor in 1959. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 1992.
Lyn Mikel Brown is an American academic,author,feminist,and community activist. She is Professor of Education Emerit at Colby College in Waterville,Maine. Her research interests include girls' development,youth activism,and the impact of media and marketing on youth. She is a co-founder of the research-driven nonprofit,Hardy Girls Healthy Women,and SPARK,a girl-fueled anti-racist gender justice movement. She has authored seven books,many peer-reviewed articles,general media essays,and book chapters. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.
Barbara W. Woodlee is an American college administrator. She was president of Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield,Maine,from 1984 to 2012,and since 2013 has served as chief academic officer of the Maine Community College System. She was the first woman president in both the state technical college and community college systems. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.
Lori A. Fowle is an American politician.
