The downtown restaurants 18 Below, Amici’s Cucina, Opa and more received permission to have outdoor dining this year.
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 City Council to consider establishing housing board, approving outdoor dining requests
Councilors are also expected to consider a resolution supporting Asian Americans, and awarding a $436,887 contract to Pike Industries Inc. for work on Eight Rod and Marston roads.
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For Oakland man, trapping beaver a lifelong avocation
Caleb Jones, 28, sets traps in large waterways all over Kennebec County, and helps remove beavers from people’s property, where the rodents chew through trees.
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Video: Interfaith Council hosts Easter sunrise service at Head of Falls in Waterville
About 50 worshippers attend 6 a.m. service, near Two-Cent Bridge spanning Kennebec River.
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Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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Amy Calder: With Easter comes hope
Easter in the 1950s and ’60s meant donning pastel-colored dresses, patent leather shoes and bonnets and listening to mysterious sermons in church, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville plans to accommodate businesses, building owners during construction
An $11.2 million downtown revitalization project, to include changing the traffic pattern on Main and Front streets, is occurring simultaneously with construction of the $18 million Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street.
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Central Maine faithful celebrating holy days in-person and virtually amid pandemic
Places of worship in the Augusta and Waterville areas are using a combination of virtual and in-person gatherings as key holy celebrations get underway a year into the coronavirus pandemic.
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Waterville woman, killed when tree branch hit car, was executive chef, engaged to be married
Rochelle Hager, 31, died Monday when a large pine tree branch fell onto her car during strong winds, as she drove on Knowlton Corner Road in Farmington.
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Waterville school panel to review hiring policy in wake of administrative transfer debate
The Waterville Board of Education’s policy committee will meet Thursday to discuss the schools’ administrative hiring policy, after some members objected to Superintendent Eric Haley’s making transfers without receiving approval.