The WSHS Jobs for Maine Graduates Career Association recently held its tenth annual Initiation and Installation (I&I) ceremony. The Career Association is an organized structure in which students work on team building activities, service learning projects and leadership skill development.

Story by Ursula Herbert-Johnson, Class of 2014

This year we are welcome two new adminsrators to the halls of Waterville Senior High.

Mr. Brian Laramee has taken Ms. Carole Dodge’s place as vice principal, and Ms. Heidi Bernier has replaced Mr. Douglas Frame as athletic director. Ms. Dodge and Mr. Frame are now the principal and vice principal at WJHS.

WATERVILLE – The next phase of improvements to Waterville Senior High School are on track to begin this summer, with a focus on the academic portions of the building.

The east wings of WSHS are predominantly classroom space, and these areas are scheduled for major upgrades including abatement, electrical, mechanical, window and curtain, wall, flooring and ceiling work, student locker replacement, and technology infrastructure according to Jim Reny, facilities manager for Waterville schools.

WATERVILLE – Beginning next fall, Waterville Senior High School will be heated largely by an old-fashioned energy source thanks in part to a $750,000 federal grant.

WSHS plans to convert to wood chip boilers in 2011 and sideline its existing oil heating system as a backup, trading a heat source that relies largely on imported oil for one fueled by local sources, according to Jim Reny, Facilities Manager for Alternative Organizational Structure 92, of which Waterville is a member.

WATERVILLE – The newest Educare facility in the nation - and the only one in New England - opened next to the George J. Mitchell School on Drummond Avenue early this fall, bringing unprecedented opportunities to the area’s youngest children.