Rob Caldwell

Maine

Anchor and Reporter at WCSH-TV (Portland, ME)

Anchor and Reporter at 207 - WCSH-TV

Anchor and Reporter at WLBZ-TV (Bangor, ME)

Anchor and reporter at @WCSH6 & @WLBZ2. Watch me on @207TV at 7 PM. Kirk is the real captain of the Enterprise.

Articles

The Portland Museum of Art is taking a pause amid expansion plans

2 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — After a sometimes heated, two-year battle over its plans to expand its campus on Congress Square, the Portland Museum of Art is hitting the pause button. "The museum right now is kind of settling back and trying to have a healing moment," PMA Director Mark Bessire said, "and deciding, how do we move forward with the existing project?" That project, a dramatic, $100 million addition to the main building, was unveiled in January 2023.
Opera in the Pines offers 'relatable' performances with local settings

3 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Perhaps you’re not a fan of opera. But, would you be more likely to attend a performance if it were staged at a lobster restaurant on the coast of Maine and came with a three-course meal? Opera in the Pines, an alternative opera company founded in 2022 by three singers raised in Maine, is betting the answer to that question is yes.
A Maine crime novelist is trying something different in his latest book

1 week ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — For years now, Paul Doiron has, without fail, put out a new crime novel around the beginning of summer. His books, with plots usually set in Maine’s woods and waterways, feature a game warden investigator named Mike Bowditch. The series, now up to 15 novels, has earned both critical acclaim and commercial success.
What it took for Danny Cashman to get David Letterman on Maine talk show

1 week ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

BANGOR, Maine — Chances are excellent you’ve heard that David Letterman visited Maine last month. He came not to eat lobster rolls and gaze at lighthouses, but to appear on the second to last episode ever of “The Nite Show with Danny Cashman,” the Saturday night talk show that Cashman, with unswerving focus and superhuman effort, got and kept on the air in Maine for years. What you almost certainly don’t know is what it took to lure Letterman here.
Explore classic train films at Maine’s 'Full Speed Ahead' festival

1 week ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — For nearly as long as there have been movies, there have been movies about trains. Indeed, in the early years of the medium, audiences were fascinated by films that showed train wrecks. Buster Keaton tapped into that fascination in “The General,” a silent movie he made that was released in 1926. It featured a train wreck that reportedly cost more than $40,000 to shoot—the single most expensive shot ever up to that time.
Portland's Good Theater has a new home and a fresh start

2 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Two decades ago, Good Theater began presenting shows in what was then called the St. Lawrence Arts Center on Munjoy Hill. Now it’s moving into another old building that’s been transformed by a major renovation, the Stevens Square Theater at the former Catherine McAuley High School on the other side of Portland. Brian P. Allen, the artistic director and co-founder of Good Theater, couldn’t be more enthusiastic about the venue and the changes that come with it.
Having worked on the waterfront for nearly 50 years, Bill Gerencer has some stories to tell

3 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Not many people have seen the Maine fishing industry from more angles than Bill Gerencer. His resume covers a lot of ground. He spent about a year and a half as a sternman on a lobster boat in Boothbay Harbor, followed by five years working on offshore trawlers in the Gulf of Maine. In the latter job, the hours were long, and the work demanding. He couldn’t have been happier. “I loved the job. I loved the changes. I loved being out in the elements all the time,” he said.
David Letterman makes a stunning appearance on 'The Nite Show' in Bangor, Maine

3 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

BANGOR, Maine — Danny Cashman had a secret. The guest he’d always dreamed of getting on “The Nite Show,” his 15-year-old talk show that airs Saturdays on stations in Portland, Bangor and Presque Isle, had finally—finally!—agreed to make an appearance. The hundreds of people who’d packed Gracie Theater on the Husson University campus had no idea what they were in for.
'Down East' magazine digs into Maine's mudflats

3 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Each year, tens of thousands of words are written in praise of the beauty of the coast of Maine. They pay tribute to the beguiling mix of islands and peninsulas, cliffs and mountains, bays and beaches. Rarely, though, does anyone stop to say a kind word about Maine’s mudflats. The May issue of “Down East” addresses that oversight.
The story behind this Maine writer’s new book is a heck of a story on its own

1 month ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Writers are always looking for good ideas. Five years ago, Boo Walker, a novelist who now lives in Cape Elizabeth, had an idea fall into his lap that—well, let him explain. “The circumstances of how this story came to be,” he wrote, “still blow my hair back every time I think of them.” Here’s what happened. Two women urged Walker to complete the unfinished novel written by their late mother, a journalist named Peggy Shainberg.