Area businesses aid construction but personal reasons inspire people to lend a hand, writes Amy Calder.
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Amy Calder: The Ticonic sculpture finds a home on Waterville’s RiverWalk
While having doubts about moving the sculpture from The Concourse, Amy Calder thinks it now is in the perfect spot, where it can be touched and contemplated as it moves in the wind.
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Amy Calder: Frequent Waterville volunteer speaks out against bullying
Scott McAdoo reveals his own experiences with bullying and how demeaning it can be, but he didn’t cave into it, and his public service has given him the courage to address it, writes Amy Calder.
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Amy Calder: Those fruits of the earth that bring culinary delights
While store-bought snowballs, devil dogs and creme pastries were childhood delights that lost their luster, home-baked apple pie, applesauce cake and apple crisp came with flavor, ingenuity and love.
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Amy Calder: Farewell to a regular figure from Waterville
Peter Michaud, who paced the downtown with a bayonet at his side, but was best friends with the police chief, died in April at 72, a veteran “not without tribulations,” who was loved by family, writes Amy Calder.
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Amy Calder: Kindness fulfills tree house promise to 8-year-old
When lung cancer took Nina Rose Mitchell’s father, his pledge to build her a tree house fell to a contractor salesman and a carpenter who thought she was a sweetheart.
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Amy Calder: Waterville’s Lebanese community honors Mary Ayoob
A registered nurse, Ayoob has delivered many of her nieces and nephews and may be the oldest living member of the local community.
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Amy Calder: Governor’s Board of Executive Clemency hears litany of life lessons
The 18 cases presented to the pardon board recently were felons’ presentations of life lessons painfully learned, Amy Calder writes.
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Amy Calder: Registered nurse offers hope to sufferers of postpartum depression
Amanda Brown has made the most of her own experience to help others deal with postpartum anxiety and depression.
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Amy Calder: Historian keeps memories of WWI soldiers from Skowhegan alive
Former high school history teacher David Harville details the stories of two Skowhegan men who fought and died in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in France, one of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Force.