Reporting Aside: Waterville woman left a legacy of goodwill

Joan Phillips-Sandy, longtime Waterville lawyer, school board chairwoman and community servant, died much too young at age 78, Amy Calder writes.

Former Levine’s store, family to be commemorated in Waterville

At a celebration in July, the triangular strip of land to the south of the Lockwood Hotel in downtown Waterville will be named Levine's Park and a plaque will be erected honoring store owners Ludy and Pacy Levine and their nephew, Howard Miller, who managed the store.

25th Maine International Film Festival scheduled for July in Waterville, Skowhegan

The festival, known as MIFF and scheduled to run from July 8 to 17, typically attracts thousands of film enthusiasts to central Maine.

Waterville ceremony celebrates final beam placed on Paul J. Schupf Art Center downtown

The $18 million center is scheduled to open late next year and is seen as another draw that will make downtown a destination spot for people in central Maine.

MIFF sees strong attendance, high energy as film festival ends 2021 run

Sunday's rainy weather was not much good if heading outside, but it was perfect for watching movies — a sentiment embraced by many attendees on the final day of the 24th Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.

MIFF Review: ‘Kansas City’ entertains us with a jazzy melodrama

This smoky, meandering, sweaty hunk of life is set during the Great Depression and features a blend of gin, marked cards, bad and damaged women, gun smoke, and dirty money, J.P. Devine writes.

Photos: Weekend scenes from the Maine International Film Festival

The festival, which runs through Saturday, enters its final days this week with shows at Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville and the Waterville Opera House.

All MIFF: 2021 Maine International Film Festival in Waterville

MIFF Review: ‘Bread in the Bones’ rises to the occasion

Darrell Varga's meditative and comforting documentary on bread, slated to be shown Tuesday at the Waterville Opera House, evokes in all of us memories of our first bite of this universal food.

MIFF Review: Nueve Sevillas

Sit back and let the music carry you away to a calmer, more-romantic dreamscape, writes J.P. Devine.