Billy Demo and Harold Haskins, longtime Skowhegan neighbors and Vietnam veterans, died within two weeks of each other, with more experiences in common than their families knew, Amy Calder writes.
Amy Calder
Staff Writer
Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Sundays in the Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. She has worked at the newspaper since 1988, including a stint as bureau chief for the Somerset County Bureau in Skowhegan, and has covered a variety of beats. A Skowhegan native, she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work at the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has received numerous of awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association and is author of the book, "Comfort is an Old Barn," a collection of curated columns published by Islandport Press. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Former Levine’s store, family to be commemorated in Waterville
At a celebration in July, the triangular strip of land to the south of the Lockwood Hotel in downtown Waterville will be named Levine’s Park and a plaque will be erected honoring store owners Ludy and Pacy Levine and their nephew, Howard Miller, who managed the store.
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Hepatitis A exposure warning at Oakland restaurant is second this week involving food service in central Maine
A case of acute hepatitis was identified in a worker who handled food at the Waterville Country Club’s Nineteen 16 Restaurant in Oakland between April 26 and May 17, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention.
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Waterville council votes to award more than $2 million in paving contracts
Eighteen Streets in the South End and two basketball courts will be paved as part of contracts the City Council approved Tuesday.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Parent tells Waterville school board that Black daughter mistreated by teachers at high school
Karlene Burrell-McRae, who’s an administrator at Colby College, urged the schools and Board of Education on Monday to “do better.”
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Waterville board votes to hire principal, assistant principals for elementary schools, high school
The Waterville Board of Education approved the appointments for the Albert S. Hall School, the George J. Mitchell School and Waterville Senior High School after a 50-minute executive session Monday night.
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Waterville City Council to consider awarding more than $2 million in road paving contracts
Councilors to hold special meeting Tuesday night on paving projects in the city’s South End.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Delta Ambulance to pull out of joint agreement with Waterville
The announcement this week by Delta reflects a fraying relationship between the regional ambulance service and the city, due in part to the staffing challenges created for Delta when the city has hired away its emergency workers.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Maine
Amy Calder: Opening a door to Waterville’s South End
Colby College seniors Charlie Jodka and Quinn Burke filmed a documentary of Waterville’s South End after becoming fascinated with the neighborhood and its people when they volunteered there during a cleanup day last year, writes Amy Calder.
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Nine people displaced in Solon building fire
State fire investigators will try to determine what caused the Wednesday fire at the 3-unit building at 90 North Main St.