The Troy man, who has been charged with creating a police standoff, said thoughts of his family kept him from pulling the trigger.
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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Sara Sylvester re-elected chairwoman of Waterville Board of Education
Joan Phillips-Sandy was re-elected executive secretary of the board.
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O’Donnell elected chairman of Waterville City Council
New councilors Steve Soule and Jackie Dupont take the oath of office.
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Burglary of Waterville apartment an inside job, police say
A tenant of a May Street apartment was awoken by person walking around her apartment who came in through a basement passageway from apartment next door, police said.
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Family left homeless in Waterville fire sparked by electrical malfunction
Grandmother, mother, two children and pets who moved to Maine from South Carolina three months ago lost everything and are staying in a motel.
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O’Donnell likely to be new Waterville council chairman
Experience, level-headedness are cited by other councilors who plan to vote for him after incumbent chairman Fred Stubbert was defeated in November’s election.
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Driver in deadly Waterville wagon accident says he’s in anguish
Richard Libby said he collapsed when he learned that Kathy Marciarille, the woman critically injured in the wagon ride in Waterville on Christmas Day, had died Sunday.
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Former A.L. Weeks & Sons buildings razed, but there are no plans for site
Jerald Hurdle, who had planned a car and dog wash on the site before his zoning request failed, said the buildings were uninhabitable.
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Waterville Main Street’s Olsen: ‘Waterville is in this great place and the trajectory is clear’
The Main Street office manager will continue running the office until board of directors decides on its next move.
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Waterville woman arrested after pickup careens into City Hall parking area
Natalie Johansmeier was arrested for driving with a suspended license and on two moving violation warrants after her truck hit the city manager’s truck and the code enforcement officer’s car.