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.
RESIDENTIAL CATEGORY:
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)
Honorable mentions:
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
SYNCHRONIZED LIGHTING DISPLAY CATEGORY:
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)
BUSINESS CATEGORY:
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)
PRIZE POOL.
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
It’s Official!
The 2025 5th Annual Light Up The Town Competition Map. Please share this and enjoy the holiday season of lighting. Thank you to all of you who are participating in lighting up the town this year and please, pass on the joy of this competition and the map to others to join in next year.
Please note this years map is two pages and two additional informational pages.
Winners will be announced after December 22nd.
Have fun this year and Happy Holidays to all of you.
– Sincerely Chris Bernier, Light Up the Town Coordinator, CTB Electronics
The Children’s Discovery Museum with support from CTB Electronics is hosting a city-wide light celebration! This is the great tradition’s 5th year. Happy 5 years to everyone.
The Light up the town competition is open to residents and businesses of Waterville and its neighboring communities. Waterville, Winslow, Benton, Fairfield, Oakland, Sidney and Vassalboro.
All donations are tax deductible.
Or donations can be made payable to “Children’s Discovery Museum” Please send your donation to: Children’s Discovery Museum (L.U.T.T.), 7 Eustis Pkwy, Waterville, ME 04901.
L.U.T.T. standing for Light up the town.
COMPETITION RULES:
Businesses and individuals decorate their properties with as many lights as possible. The registered parties will be part of a city-wide map for members of the community to drive or walk by each location to admire the decorations.Once you register, you are responsible for decorating your property with as many lights and decorations as possible. The more lights the better! Once we have gathered all entries, we will compile a Light Up The Town map to distribute to the community. Please have your light display ready for November 28th, 2025(aka Black Friday), and keep your lights up all season long!
Categories.
We will be judging the event in three categories this year. Business, Residential and Syncronized Residential. 1st 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be handed out for all 3 categories and announced in December.
The Map.
CTB Electronics will generate a community map which will be posted for download. We will also promote with the map on various social media platforms. Such as Facebook. The map for general viewing by the community so it is important that your displays are on from Black Friday to Christmas.
Judging.
Judging will be handled by kids registered to Scouting America. How better to do this than kids. Judging will be between December 9th and December 22nd.
Businesses.
We are going to allow you folks to do displays inside, outside or both. We understand that you may or may not have a large storefront and we want your participation. 1st – 3rd place prizes are the ever coveted Light up the town mini blow form trophies that you can display in your business windows.
Businesses, are you interested in helping to support the Light up the Town competition with a prize donation? Please add that in your answers. This year to help support our businesses we are allowing businesses to donate to the prize pool for the Residential and Synchronized categories.
Residents.
For all of you, we want only Outside displays. 1st -3rd place prizes are electronics donated by CTB Electronics. Last year CTB Electronics gave away a Flat Screen TV to first place, a Sound System sound bar for 2nd place and a remote controlled drone for 3rd. This years prizes will be a surprise.
Synchronized Residents. (New category this year).
Displays that are synchronized to music have become somewhat popular and we wish to encourage these types of displays. To be fair we are breaking off this into it’s own category. With that we recognize that these system require lots of flashing lights timed to music with a short distance low wattage FM transmitter.
Synchronized Display with low wattage, short distance Radio transmitters will need to have it’s radio frequency registered with us this year. We would like to know if you are going to use them in your display for the two reasons. The first is we would like to make sure that you are not transmitting on other radio stations in the competition or other radio stations in general. Chris can help you with this if you run into problems. The second reason is we will put your radio station frequency on the map so people going through these neighborhoods can tune into your broadcast. Prizes will also be given out for 1st place through 3rd place. Last year, Chris hand built/soldered battery operated flashing LED Christmas tree’s as trophies for 1st through 3rd place. This years prizes will be a surprise.
We encourage everyone with holiday spirit to participate!Thank you for participating and we hope that you have fun!
If you have any questions, please contact Chris at circleofone555@hotmail.com.
Thank you to CTB Electronics for helping to make this event possible!
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. Judging was 1-10 Scale then averaged together. The kids have spoken and the placements are final. =o)
Here is this year’s Light Up the Town Competition final selections.
RESIDENTIAL CATEGORY.
1st Place – Christmas Candy Land – 2 Burleigh Street Waterville
2nd Place – The Magic of Christmas! – 1188 Augusta Road Winslow
3rd Place – Buck and Butters’ Christmas Show – 228 Martin Stream Road Fairfield
Honorable mentions:
Kamryn’s Christmas Creation – 248 South Reynolds Road Winslow
Spirit of Christmas – 310 Cemetary Street Vassalboro
A Christmas for Everyone – 2 Poulin Street Winslow
Perpetual Projects on Primrose! – 2 Primrose Street Winslow
Candy Cane Mega Chaos – 32 Washinton Street Waterville
Magic of Christmas – 65 Andea Ave Benton
SYNCHRONIZED LIGHTING DISPLAY CATEGORY
1st Place The Maineiac Lighthouse Presents Holiday Lights and Delights – 39 Franklin Street Waterville
2nd Place Fisher Family of Lights – 27 Clairmont Ave Oakland
BUSINESS CATEGORY
1st place – Pool Party Wonderland – Pool Tech 28 Charland Street Winslow
2nd place – Holiday on the Hill – State Farm 305 Kennedy Memorial Drive Waterville
3rd place – Hopes Christmas Club House – High Hopes Clubhouse 26 College Ave Waterville.
Honorable mentions:
Harris’ – Harris hair salon 5 Broadway Street Waterville
Remembering Those We Lost This Holiday – Gallant’s Funeral Home 10 Elm Street Waterville.
Thank you all for participating!!
