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If all of us who are unvaccinated get inoculated now, it would ensure we all have a happy upcoming holiday season, Amy Calder writes.

China's transfer and recycling station includes a give-and-take shack where people can rummage through items discarded by others, Amy Calder writes.

Singing is an integral part of our lives so it would make sense that it may be one of the last skills to leave us, Amy Calder writes.

Purpose over profit: Mayor Jay Coelho and the Rev. Maureen Ausbrook are teaming up to cook food for the homeless and deliver it where necessary — be it under a bridge or in the woods, Amy Calder writes.

We've got ticks, coronavirus, browntail moths and now, a weird substance on Maine beaches that cause our feet turn black, Amy Calder writes.

increase font size Amy Calder: Bossov Ballet Theatre a treasure If ever there were a more deserving recipient of a new performing arts center, it is the Bossov Ballet Theatre at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Amy Calder writes. Share We’ve learned through this pandemic just how precious it is to be able to experience the performing arts. This struck me most acutely last Saturday as I sat on the expansive green lawn at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, watching the Bossov Ballet ...

increase font size Amy Calder: Beautiful lives, cut short Barbara Maxim-Hendsbee was a valued and well-loved colleague whose life ended too soon when she and her granddaughter and best friend were killed while walking along a road in Augusta, Amy Calder writes. Share Flowers at the scene Friday of a one-car crash Thursday afternoon that killed two women and a 1-year-old baby as the women walked the west side of Cony Road in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file You’d better believe it:...

Jonathan McGonagle, 36, of Portland, and fellow cyclist, Nick Grisi, 40, of New Jersey, stopped to visit a longtime family friend in Waterville Tuesday after bicycling from California to Florida and then up the east coast to Maine.

increase font size Amy Calder: Victims of a tight housing market Isreal and Desiree Mosley and their two children have been looking to move into a better apartment in Waterville, but they are being priced out of a tight housing market, Amy Calder writes. Share Desiree Mosley fends off anxiety as she worries about finding a suitable place for her family to live. “I wake up in a panic some mornings — just a general panic,” she said. Her husband, Isreal, and their children, Morgan, 13, and ...

Amy Calder: An extraordinary letter and a gift A recent letter from a generous, unidentified reader resulted in a donation to charity, Amy Calder writes. In my 30-plus years in the news business, this was a first. I received an unexpected, anonymous gift in the mail that I can only describe as extraordinary. Yet how does one thank a person whose identity is unknown? Some people place an ad in the newspaper, I suppose, or post a message on social media or merely shout “thank you” to the uni...