First off I would like to thank the Children’s Discovery Museum for partnering with CTB Electronics to keep the Light up the Town Competition alive and well.  If you have the opportunity to make a donation to the Children’s Discovery Museum please do so.  All of your contributions are tax deductible and go so a long way to help this wonderful organization.

      Special thanks to Fortier’s State Farm for making a generous donation to the Children’s Discovery Museum.

      Special thanks to my secret five youth judges a.k.a. Santa’s Little Helpers.  They did a great job running around and viewing each an everyone of your displays.

      Special thanks to Amarinda over at the Children’s Discovery Museum for hosting the Parade of Lights as well as co hosting the Light up the Town competition.

      Next I would like to thank everyone of the participating residents and businesses in Waterville, Winslow, Oakland, Benton, Fairfield, and Vassalboro.  We had some wonderful displays this year.  All of you did a fantastic job.  This year we had 23 residents in the residents category, we had 2 synchronized lighting displays in that category and we had 3 business participate this year.  We were down by 2 this year from last year.  Hopefully next year we will get more participation.

       The kid volunteer judges selected from the Cub Scouts consisted of some young boys and girls who took their time over the 2 week judging period.  The results came in Dec 22nd and now we have tallied everything.  Turns out we had a dead heat tie for 2nd and 3rd place.  The judges were then asked to deliberate on the 24th and we came to the following conclusion on the judging.

Here is this year’s Light up the Town Competition final selections.

1st Place – Dreaming of a Bright Christmas – 450 Clinton Ave  Winslow (Prize – New 40 inch TV)

2nd Place – Kamryn’s Christmas Chaos – 248 S Reynolds rd  Winslow (Prize – New TV Sound Bar)

3rd Place – Christmas magic at the pares – 1188 Augusta Rd Winslow (Prize – New portable Bluetooth sound speaker)

4th Place – Bucks and Butters Christmas show – 228 Martin Stream Road  Fairfield (Prize – Speaker/Phone charging/LED lamp)

5th Place – Merry & Bright –  31 Corbett Ln  Winslow (Color Changing bluetooth speaker)

Santas last stop lane – 67 Sherwood Ln Vassalboro

The Eyesore on Roosevelt – 45 Roosevelt St Waterville

Happy Holidays from the Harrinton’s – 1418 Augusta Road Winslow

Santas magical forest – 2 Burleigh St Waterville

Cushman Road Lights – 133 Cushman rad Winslow

Up on the roof top click click click –  Washingtong st Waterville

The Hill Holiday – 1 Cherry Hill Terr Waterville

1st Place –  Fisher Family Lights 27 Clairmont Ave Oakland (Prize – special electronic trophy)

2nd Place –  I work to afford my husbands light show hobby 2 Primrose st Winslow (Prize – special electronic trophy)

1st place – Hopes Christmas Club House – High Hopes Clubhouse 26 College Ave Waterville. (Prize – Special blow mold trophy)

2nd place – Holiday on the Hill – State Farm 305 Kennedy Memorial Drive Waterville (Prize – Special blow mold trophy)

3rd place – Remembering Those we lost – Gallants Funeral Home 10 Elm Street Waterville (Prize – Special blow mold trophy)

This year we are going to coordinate with the winners by email.  Delivery of prizes will be after the 3rd of January.

This year we are giving out some pretty great prizes for 1st – 5th place for Residential as well as special trophies for the Synchronized and Business categories.

Be on the look out in mid September for email from us.  We will launch the Light up the town competition a little bit early next year.  Hopefully spread the word far and wide.

Know that each and everyone of you did a great job this year and I am really happy and impressed with your displays for the 5th year we have run this.  Great job everyone indeed.

Thank you to everyone again for your participation and we look forward to 2026’s Light up the town competition.

Yours in the Holiday Season “Keeping it bright!”

Chris Bernier

Owner – CTB Electronics