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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 Theatre perform its magic. Related I do not use the word “magic” lightly, as that is exactly wha...

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: life is short. Never has that become more clear to me than now, since learning of the tragic passin...

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 Leander, 5, have lived with her in their Waterville apartment more than five years. But there are pr...

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 universe. I have the fortunate ability to express my gratitude here, but first, I must relate the back ...