While MaineGeneral in Augusta is receiving the Pfizer vaccine, Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville is slated to get the Moderna vaccine, which has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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 council eyes overseer for downtown traffic project, chickens, short term rentals
The City Council on Tuesday also will consider taking final votes on a tax increment financing district and a rezoning request to enable construction of a community ice rink.
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Amy Calder: Cats make perfect pandemic partners
Felines don’t ask for much, but give a lot, particularly to owners stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, Amy Calder writes.
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Bike and ski shop opens in downtown Waterville
Gorham Bike & Ski, a full-service shop at 50 Concourse West, is between The Villager Family Restaurant and Yardgoods Center.
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First adult-use marijuana store in Kennebec County opens in Waterville
Sweet Dirt, an Eliot-based company, opened Wednesday in the former Pine Cone Gift & Furniture Shop on Kennedy Memorial Drive.
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Adult community education classes in Waterville go remote because of COVID-19 case
The entire wing of Mid-Maine Regional Adult Community Education at Waterville Senior High School closed Wednesday until Jan. 4, while Clinton Elementary School reported a positive case of COVID-19, the seventh in Maine School Administrative District 49.
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Neighbors of police firing range air concerns to Waterville Planning Board
The city is developing a police firearms training range at 970 West River Road that was approved by the City Council, and now the Planning Board must review it under the city’s site plan review ordinance.
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Colby’s Dare Northward campaign surpasses $563 million toward $750 million goal
Funds transform students’ experience and connections with the community with 22,000 donors chipping in.
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Waterville fire caused by improper installation of wood stove
The fire at 37 Carey Lane Thursday in the city’s South End started in a barn or garage where a wood stove had been improperly installed.
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Waterville Planning Board to consider police firing range, marijuana facility
The Planning Board is expected to consider final plans Monday for a marijuana growing operation and a police firing range.