Victoria Bowring was storing all her possessions in her damaged mobile home and had planned to repair it and move back in from the nearby camper trailer she’s been living in since October.
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.
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Waterville’s first assistant city manager settles in at City Hall
William Post, 50, will earn a salary of $95,000 and oversee several city departments while focusing on the municipal budget.
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Road work planned on Interstate 95 from Waterville to Pittsfield
The work by the state Department of Transportation will include paving and striping from Waterville to Pittsfield and will include paving on- and off-ramps.
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Amy Calder: A day with Skowhegan’s Class of 1947 is a journey through time
A small group that graduated 75 years ago from Skowhegan High School and Bloomfield Academy gather monthly to play cards, have lunch and reminisce, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville City Council refers former Sacred Heart Church property rezoning proposal to Planning Board
Ware-Butler Building Supply is looking to expand the office building at the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church property and store building materials in the parking lot.
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Building supply company seeks rezoning of former Sacred Heart Church property in Waterville
Ware-Butler Building Supply company proposes to expand the existing office building at the former church and store materials on the adjacent parking lot off Middle Street.
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Maine voters to see new district numbers beside candidate names on November ballot
The redistricting process is conducted every 10 years, following the U.S. census, and ensures districts’ populations do not become unbalanced and run afoul of the one-person, one-vote principle.
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Amy Calder: Decades after suffering abuse, Waterville man offers a message and a warning
The man, who is on palliative care, tells his story about having been sexually abused as a child in an effort to spread awareness, warn parents to pay attention to their children and let children know it’s OK to tell someone when abuse occurs, Amy Calder writes.
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It may take 2 years for Hampden waste-to-energy plant to make profit once it’s up and running again
The Municipal Review Committee, which represents the solid waste interests of several central Maine towns, held a hearing Thursday outlining its efforts to buy the plant for $1.5 million and get it operational again.
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Mercer voters approve $851,119 municipal budget
About 70 people attend annual Town Meeting, approving most of the 42 warrant articles.