A driver apparently failed to stop at a stop sign Sunday in Detroit and crashed into a substation, causing more than $150,000 worth of damage, and then drove away.
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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Delta offers alternate proposal in Waterville ambulance debate
Tim Beals, executive director of Delta Ambulance, has submitted a plan to the Waterville City Council that he says addresses the response time issue, provides reimbursement to the city for backup services and doesn’t require the city to buy two used ambulances.
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Amy Calder: Much to be thankful for in Waterville’s South End
A Colorado couple were hired as pastors at a small church in Waterville’s South End where both they and the congregants say they were blessed with an extraordinary gift: each other.
in each other.
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Mount Vernon farmers gift Waterville with Christmas tree
Scott and Betsy Herrick and John Watson, of Mount Vernon, donated a 27-foot-tall Fraser fir to the city of Waterville for the holiday season.
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Anson stabbing victim leaves hospital against medical advice
James Andrew Tucci, 34, of Anson, was in the intensive care unit at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor since being taken there after he was stabbed late Saturday.
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Smithfield man found dead near partially submerged car in East Pond
The death of Matthew Pratt, 88, of Cardinal Lane, is being considered by the state Medical Examiner’s Office as an unattended death.
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Hobby Lobby store opening in Waterville next year
The arts and crafts store is expected to open in the former Kmart space at Elm Plaza next year, according to a company spokeswoman.
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Sukeforth Family Festival of Trees kicks off Friday in Waterville
Sixty trees decorated and laden with gifts will be raffled off during the fifth annual six-day festival, which benefits Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area, Shriner’s Hospitals and Spectrum Generations’ Meals on Wheels Program.
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Waterville council postpones decision on overriding mayor’s veto on ambulance purchase, again
Councilors said they need more time to consider whether to override Mayor Nick Isgro’s veto of a vote to buy two used ambulances for $131,000.
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Man arrested for Anson stabbing appears in court
Dustyn Everett Merrill, 35, of Anson, remained in Somerset County Jail on Monday after appearing in Skowhegan District Court on a charge of aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing James Andrew Tucci, 34, in the neck late Saturday.