Some Downeast residents are putting hope in the misguided idea that One Big Thing can solve their problems.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.