Councilors at Tuesday’s meeting also will hear updates from City Manager Michael Roy on plans for The Concourse, Castonguay Square and Head of Falls.
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.
Waterville police seize drugs, make arrests in two separate busts over weekend
Police arrested four people at a local hotel Friday and Saturday, seizing fentanyl and crack and handing two 17-year-old girls from out-of-state over to DHHS to be sent home to their parents.
First snowfall of March blankets central Maine, causing delays and closures
In the waning days of winter, Monday’s snowfall adds only a few inches to the relatively low seasonal total, officials said.
Mercer, Solon hold annual Town Meetings
Area communities provide results of their annual Town Meetings.
Amy Calder: When power’s out, the mind wanders
An outage during the workday raises fears of a time when everything could stand still, when we are crippled by the fallout of our own intelligence, Amy Calder writes.
70 people turn out for Waterville opioid forum
Lisa Hallee tells crowd of her nephew, who lost his battle with addiction in November.
Mercer voters to consider proposed $463,165 budget
Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting will be asked to spend $30,000 to repair the first three-quarters of a mile of West Sandy River Road with shim, gravel and grading.
Cambridge, Embden, New Portland and St. Albans hold Town Meetings
Area communities provide results of their annual Town Meetings.
Cambridge voters to consider withdrawing from school district
Voters at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting also will consider a $353,315 budget and spending $38,000 from surplus for a salt and sand pad on Route 150.
Cornville voters approve a budget of just over $500,000
About 30 people turned out Saturday for the annual town meeting at the town hall where they also voted to increase town officer salaries by 2.8 percent.