James D. Julia, a former Fairfield auction house owner, denies allegations from a Pennsylvania company that bought his business for $7.2 million that Julia breached the contract by referring business to his sister’s auction company in violation of the agreement.
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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Amy Calder: The wisdom of embracing change
Resisting changes in technology can leave a person in the dust, Amy Calder writes.
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Colby course explores community faith-based missions
Students in a new Colby College course volunteered with faith-based organizations, developed relationships with pastors and lay people, and wrote profiles about who they met.
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Waterville charter panel to probe the ward system, budget, mayor position
The Charter Commission voted Tuesday to form subcommittees to talk to elected officials, former commission members and other towns’ officials about their charters.
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Waterville board approves 8-man football for high school sports team
The Board of Education also elected Patricia Helm to the Ward 1 seat vacated by Sara Sylvester, who resigned last month because she moved out of the ward.
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Waterville board to consider approving 8-man football
The Waterville Board of Education on Monday also will interview a candidate for the board’s Ward 1 seat, which was vacated when Sara Sylvester resigned.
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Amy Calder: Remembering my old primary school
Amy Calder reminisces about North Elementary School in Skowhegan which she attended from kindergarten through grade four and which is second in priority on the state’s list of schools to be replaced.
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Winslow to answer Waterville fire calls for part of Saturday
Waterville firefighters to attend funeral and all calls will be dispatched to Winslow.
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Recruiter touts availability of census taker jobs at Norridgewock Library event
Ronald Witham, a U.S. Census recruiter, said at the Norridgewock Public Library Saturday that census taker jobs pay $20 an hour, plus 58 cents a mile.
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Waterville charter commission hears calls for voters to approve city budgets
Some speakers at the charter commission meeting argued taxpayers — not councilors — should have the final word on budgets, while others favored keeping the ward system as a means of neighborhood representation.