Reporting Aside: Wrong-way driving elicits angst

As the July 4 holiday week approaches, we'd do well to watch for wrong-way drivers, Amy Calder writes.

Reporting Aside: Oakland man extends kindness to students from afar

Gil Roy has hosted more than two-dozen foreign exchange students from around the world in the last 14 years and has two more coming this summer, Amy Calder writes.

Commentary: Young people like me want to work in offshore wind in Maine

A legislative bill currently up for consideration would meaningfully commit the state of Maine to offshore wind energy. My commitment to Maine depends on that commitment.

Ben Bragdon: Gardiner school officials remove Pride flag, and take sides with bullies

Reporting Aside: One man’s kind gesture has uplifting effect

Debra Brown's opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.

Reporting Aside: Graduates, want some unsolicited advice? Yes, yes you do.

Work hard but be lazy, earn money but occasionally splurge, sleep long, eat well and spend time with old people, Amy Calder advises high school graduates.

Reporting Aside: Closing of Waterville grocery store is ‘going to hurt,’ employee says

Workers at Save A Lot on The Concourse in downtown Waterville will lose their jobs when the store closes for good Thursday, Amy Calder writes.

Reporting Aside: Cafe that’s been a fixture of the Waterville community to close

Jorgensen's Cafe and Deli owner Theresa Dunn, who has owned the cafe since 2017 and worked for all four of its owners before that, plans to close the business around June 1, Amy Calder writes.

Reporting Aside: Volunteers who give aid to others hope one day they’ll be ‘completely unnecessary’

A small group of people with the Greater Waterville Area Poverty Action Coalition/Poor People's Campaign staff a table each Friday in Waterville to provide basic necessities to those in need, Amy Calder writes.

Reporting Aside: Inch by inch, row by row, a small group makes community grow

Steven Jones, who owns Fieldstone Gardens in Vassalboro, was joined this week by two of his employees at the RiverWalk at Head of Falls in Waterville to bring some color to the garden beds, and to the lives of passersby, Amy Calder writes.