The building on the northeast part of The Concourse would house about 200 students in a special civic engagement program.
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.
Public works budgets in Augusta, Waterville areas stretched thin by ice, storms
The departments have already exceeded their snow removal budgets for the year, and more snow is predicted overnight Wednesday.
Central Maine superintendents weigh options for making up for snow days
As Augusta and Waterville area communities still were digging out Tuesday, school officials monitored reports about another storm expected from Wednesday into Thursday.
Waterville Board of Education to host educational forum on budget
The public is invited to Wednesday meeting at 6 p.m. in Trask Auditorium at Waterville Senior High School.
Director says Waterville public works crew tired but determined
Plow truck operators working long hours on little sleep dealing with back-to-back storms from last week that culminated in the blizzard Sunday night into Monday.
Babe’s Shoe Repair in Waterville closes as owner retires after 37 years
Owner Fred Murphy plans to retire to his blueberry farm in China after working for decades as a cobbler in the city.
Slippery roads cited in Waterville car crash that sends 3 to hospital
The crash on College Avenue was one of several that occurred Friday morning in the Waterville area, a day after a nor’easter brought about 10 inches of snow to most areas of central Maine.
Firefighters respond to fire in former shoe factory in Pittsfield
The fire was reported at the former San Antonio Shoe factory on Waverly Avenue in Pittsfield.
Elderly man evicted from Albion home becomes governor’s guest at State of the State
Richard Sukeforth, 80, said he is grateful for LePage’s efforts to help the elderly.
Waterville planners get first look at Colby residential complex for downtown
About 200 students expected to move into building in fall of 2018