Alfond Youth Center community gardens and parking proposal for North Street also on agenda.
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.
Skowhegan pair with three children charged with trafficking in heroin, other drugs
Authorities seize drugs Tuesday at Chestnut Street home within 1,000 feet of elementary school.
Police charge Thorndike woman with manslaughter in ‘bizarre’ Burnham death
Tara Shibles, 37, of Thorndike, was arrested Thursday for entering the home last month of Joyce Wood, 72, after which Wood was ‘stricken’ and died outside in a vehicle, police said.
Parishioners mourn loss of priest removed from church amid sexual abuse allegations
Experts who deal with sex abuse cases say such abuse scars victims for life.
Waterville priest removed from duties over allegations of sexual abuse 15 years ago in Connecticut
Rev. Larry Jensen of St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church ‘can not present himself as a priest anymore,’ officials say
Waterville job fair to feature 35 businesses looking for workers
Jobs in health care, technology and food service are among those up for grabs as Kennebec County’s unemployment rate stands at 3.4 percent, just above the state rate.
Officials break ground on $25.5 million Colby College residential-retail complex
The 100,000-square-foot building in downtown Waterville is expected to house 200 students and faculty and staff members when it opens in August 2018.
Parking lease for Colby boutique hotel project gets final OK
Waterville council approves agreement for college to use space in city-owned lot for hotel use.
Waterville man arrested on a warrant in connection with theft last summer in Canaan
Police said several thousands of dollars worth of firearms and World War II-era medals stolen from camp on Sibley Pond.
Waterville council expected to take final vote on parking lot lease for Colby boutique hotel
Council’s decision would be final step in college’s bid to build on Main Street lot.