Esler, a fire captain, was hired with the expectation that he would be Winslow fire chief as well, though the Winslow position has not yet been formalized.
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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LePage bill intended to protect elderly from tax lien foreclosure in limbo
The governor, who now is working with a Caribou woman whose home was foreclosed on, vows to ensure the bill gets sponsored next year if a special session, which he has the power to convene, is not called.
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Waterville planners send request to rezone 110 College Ave. to council
Booker Family Properties wants to convert the former Goudreau’s Retirement Inn into apartments.
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Wind-swept fire ravages home off Depot Street in Thorndike
Firefighters from at least nine departments arrived to tackle the blaze, which also destroyed four vehicles and spread into the nearby woods.
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Waterville council to discuss revenue, capital improvements, debt service at budget workshop
The Tuesday session comes nearly two weeks after Mayor Nick Isgro claimed councilors were working quietly behind the scenes to increase the tax rate by 13 percent.
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Waterville board to consider plans to convert former retirement inn into apartments
A revision of the Thomas College trail system expansion plan also is on Monday’s Planning Board agenda.
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Thai-inspired fried chicken, gourmet doughnuts merge in new Waterville restaurant
Money Cat Fried Chicken and Donuts owners David Gilbert and Kevin Sandes say their new concept fits in perfectly with downtown revitalization.
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First of 2 apartment buildings in Waterville demolished, making way for new credit union
The buildings on Oak and Main streets will be replaced by a 3,000-square-foot KV Federal Credit Union, to open in the fall and replace the location on Quarry Road.
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Waterville Creates! gets $75,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to plan redesign of Castonguay Square
The public will be asked to take part in planning workshops for the new park design, with meetings to start in September.
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Waterville council votes to place mayoral recall question on June 12 ballot
Mayor Nick Isgro was absent from Tuesday’s meeting, at which City Solicitor Bill Lee told councilors their role was not whether to put the recall to a vote, but when, as the city charter requires that the election occur.