Bryan Kaenrath, new city manager of Waterville, sits at his 1920s-era antique desk in his new office at City Hall in Waterville on Thursday. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE — Bryan Kaenrath believes a city manager does his job best when he has a good pulse of the community.
That is why Kaenrath, who has been on the job since July 31, has been walking the streets, popping into businesses and meeting owners and employees.
“This is a great community,” Kaenrath, 40, said Thursday. “We have a lot of people who really care about the direction of this place and what’s happening, and that’s really good to know. It does take a village.”
Kaenrath (pronounced “cane wrath”) made the comments as he was sitting in his City Hall office, which has large windows overlooking Castonguay Square. The office already bears his personal mark, with mementos…