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PublishedMarch 24, 2023
Reporting Aside: Before wrecking ball arrives, Skowhegan school welcomes spring with popular tradition
North Elementary School will be razed to make way for a new building, but on one day this week the community held fast to its bubbles, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2023
Reporting Aside: Rather than investing in ‘stuff,’ Waterville woman says, invest in others
Brenda Whitney gets joy from helping others, without looking for thank-yous, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2023
Reporting Aside: Finding calm, and a good conversation, around a spinning wheel
Students in a beginning clay class at the Ticonic Gallery + Studio in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville say creating with their hands is therapeutic and satisfying, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2023
Reporting Aside: As China woman confronts fatal diagnosis, she hopes for a final wish
Juli Brooks Settlemire, who's receiving hospice care, has inspired many in community theater in central Maine and wants to find a home for the Waterville-based Aqua City Actors Theatre, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2023
Reporting Aside: Winslow food pantry is ‘uplifting spirits and souls’
As food prices increase and more and more people can't afford to buy their own food, let alone travel to a store, the Winslow Community Cupboard brings it to their neighborhoods, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2023
Reporting Aside: Portly feline disrupts the best-laid feeding plans of cats and men
It's a balancing act, owning a fat cat that needs to lose weight and a skinny one who needs to gain, especially when it comes to meal time, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2023
Reporting Aside: Waterville infant born with fragile heart seen as ‘precious gift’ to family
Liliana Ann Greene was born Jan. 11 in Boston with a rare heart condition that required surgery the day after her birth, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2023
Reporting Aside: If there’s any lesson you fall for it’s this — beware the wretched ice
Wearing proper foot gear this time of year can mean the difference between a safe trek to the mailbox and a painful ride to the hospital, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2023
Reporting Aside: Space shuttle tragedy continues to reverberate 37 years later
Christa McAuliffe was 37 and a popular teacher from New Hampshire when she and six others died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2023
Reporting Aside: Waterville arts center an enduring legacy of benefactor with ‘disruptive ideas’
It was important to Paul J. Schupf that Waterville have an arts center in the heart of the city that is accessible to all, Amy Calder writes.
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