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Practicing ‘service above self,’ in Waterville | Column

The Waterville Rotary Club donated a total of $10,000 to four area food pantries from its savings to help with the food crisis.

Anticipating the upcoming holidays provides sparks of light in an otherwise dark world.

For five successful years, the all-volunteer Friends of the Library Shop located downtown has benefited the Skowhegan Free Public Library.

At R.L. Mercantile & Trading Post, Brea Willette teaches about food security and reaches out a helping hand to those in need.

Sunday, Oct. 26, is National Pumpkin Day.

The immersive experience of playing Anne Sullivan more than a half century ago at Skowhegan Area High School taught an invaluable lesson.

Suffering from mental illnesses, 50-year-old Jessica LeClair says it’s hard maneuvering homelessness.

In 1969, a Picasso painting was stolen from a Boston airport and Whitcomb Rummel Jr. relates his family’s role in its theft and return.

A lifetime of experience has readied Walter Dale for what’s next.

LouAnn Lindie, 66, started working at the restaurant on Main Street when she was 16 and never left.

Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Saturdays in both the Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. She has worked at the newspaper since 1988, including a stint as bureau chief for the Somerset County Bureau in Skowhegan, and has covered a variety of beats. A Skowhegan native (who is proud to say she was born in Waterville), she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work in the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds more than two dozen awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.

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