Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Saturdays in both 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 (who is proud to say she was born in Waterville), she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work in the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds more than two dozen awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2016
Thomas College, Collaborative Consulting forge Waterville training partnership
The college will help train employees as the information technology firm moves toward hiring 200 at its Waterville office in the next five years, a move also designed to help the area’s business community, college and company officials said.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2016
Palmyra Wal-Mart standoff ends when man surrenders
The 28-year-old Corinna man, who police said was suicidal, had a gun and was parked at the end of the parking lot near U.S. Route 2, causing a massive police response at Wal-Mart as customers were kept locked inside the store for more than two hours.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2016
Brew pub, nightclub eyed for former Ken-A-Set building in downtown Waterville
Massachusetts businessman Mark McLeod is the latest to join the city’s downtown revitalization movement with purchase of the building at 1 College Ave.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2016
Waterville council OKs tax district for Merici Woods senior housing project
One more vote is needed to finalize a tax increment financing agreement and related development plan for the former Ursuline Sisters convent off Western Avenue.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2016
Waterville council approves $37.6 million municipal, school budget
Councilors rejected a proposal from chairman John O’Donnell to restore $250,000 in school spending, a proposal Mayor Nick Isgro said would prompt him to veto the budget again.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2016
Plans for 75-bed residence hall at Thomas College unveiled in Waterville
The Planning Board also is recommending to the City Council that KSW Federal Credit Union property be rezoned.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2016
Waterville council to consider $37.6 million municipal, school budget
The proposal, which comes after the original budget was vetoed by Mayor Nick Isgro and an override was repealed, combined with other factors, means a $5 drop in the tax rate.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2016
Waterville will try to trim $750,000 from $38 million budget
The City Council will hold a workshop Monday to find enough cuts in the budget to lower the tax rate by $1 or more per $1,000 valuation.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2016
Maine Central Institute announces $6.5 million capital campaign
The Pittsfield school’s fundraising effort is part of its 150th anniversary celebration, and alumni were told of the campaign Saturday during Reunion Weekend.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2016
Waterville police nab man wanted by Belfast police on eluding officer charges
Levi Mason, 38, was arrested in Waterville Thursday after he allegedly took Belfast police on a 120-mph chase last week.
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