Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting also will decide whether to use up to $50,000 from surplus for a salt and sand shed project in case the project total exceeds $270,000.
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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Solon voters to consider proposed $878,000 budget at Town Meeting
Voters at Town Meeting on Saturday also will consider increasing the clerk/tax collector’s salary to keep the Town Office open four days a week.
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Embden voters to consider approving funds for future paving projects
Residents also will consider approving a 3 percent cost of living increase for town employees at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting.
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Cornville voters to consider $500,000 budget on Saturday
Voters will go to the polls from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, at the town hall to elect a selectman and road commissioner.
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St. Albans voters to consider spending up to $910,000 for road paving
Voters on Saturday also will consider making the town clerk position appointed, rather than elected.
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Amy Calder: Felines make best of friends
While Thurston and Bitsy are very different animals and quarrel sometimes, when push comes to shove, they have each other’s back, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville animal shelter raises $220K, close to goal for staying open
Humane Society Waterville Area has raised more than $220,000 of its $250,000 goal set late last year to keep the shelter open and now the new executive director, Lisa Oakes, is starting to talk with larger donors, face-to-face.
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Some residents cite ability to bring guns to council meetings as reason to change venue
Some Waterville residents, who oppose holding council meetings in the Colby College-owed building downtown, said people can carry handguns in a city-owned building but not at the Colby facility.
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Waterville council accepts $10,000 from Colby to help with parking enforcement
City Councilors on Tuesday also voted unanimously to increase parking fine amounts from $10 to $25 and the fee for parking illegally in a handicapped space from $50 to $200.
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Elderly woman struck by car in Waterville Hannaford parking lot
A woman, 86, was pushing her grocery cart to her vehicle when she was struck by a car, after which she was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, according to police.