Erik Thomas, 44, has served on the council a total of five years and was chairman in 2014.
Amy Calder
Staff Writer
Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, โReporting Aside,โ 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.
Firefighters rescue horse from Pattee’s Pond in Winslow
The horse was up to its head in the water near the south shore of the pond, where firefighters, some in dry suits, headed to the scene on a snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles.
Waterville City Council to elect chairman, appoint committee members
The council on Tuesday also will consider approving a $181,089 contract with Hight Auto Group of Skowhegan for four parks and recreation vehicles.
Amy Calder: Recalling a 1960s childhood
It was another world, roaming the woods and fields with no cell phones, Amy Calder writes.
Lockwood Hotel construction in Waterville on schedule
Workers are installing exterior sheathing on the $26 million Lockwood Hotel building on Main Street in preparation for removing temporary enclosure materials.
Fatal Canaan car crash remains under investigation
Richard Clark Sr., 55, of Canaan, was killed after the car he was driving Thursday on Pinnacle Road struck a tree, according to sheriff’s officials.
Skowhegan hospital delivers first area baby of 2020
Little 4.7 pound Camdyn Lynn Fortin was born at 2:05 a.m. Thursday after her mother, Shay-lynn Smith, of Cornville, went into Redington-Fairview General Hospital on Jan. 1.
Camera footage leads police to Fairfield apartment burglar
Tanya L. Paradis, 44, of Fairfield, was arrested after a man reported his phone alerted him that someone was in his apartment on Western Avenue and he called police.
Man charged with aggravated attempted murder in Waterville police shooting
Richard Murray-Burns, 29, was arrested Wednesday after leaving a Bangor hospital and charged in the Dec. 22 shooting of Waterville police Officer Timothy Hinton.
Waterville officer shot during traffic stop ‘recovering well’
Investigations continue into the Dec. 22 shooting of police Officer Timothy Hinton by the suspect, who later was shot by law enforcement officers in Canaan.