The state and the city will split the cost of fixing Cool Street, while the city will pay the entire cost of repairing three other streets.
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.
New I-95 interchange in Waterville may be put out to bid next year
Public meetings will be held this year on the Trafton Road interchange which is intended to ease traffic congestion elsewhere and expand freight and passenger transport.
New Kennebec County sheriff’s program puts police in rural schools
Officers have been assigned schools, where they interact with students, teachers and parents.
Mount Merici Academy students in Waterville collect 1,800 pairs of socks for homeless
The school’s effort ballooned after the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter director told students she’d go sockless until they collected enough.
Waterville senior housing scheduled for July completion
The 40-unit complex, on the site of the former St. Francis de Sales church, will feature a bell house.
Tractor-trailer driver injured in I-95 crash in Benton
Northbound traffic slowed by crash at mile marker 135 and will be for the rest of the afternoon after two trucks collided, state police said.
Waterville man arrested on drug, switchblade charges
Police say George Garcia was in a car with three 15-year-old girls, a variety of drugs and two illegal knives.
New Waterville Planning Board member calls for citywide revaluation
Paul Lussier, a former code enforcement officer, said the workload is too big to have only one and the city needs to pay more attention to what’s going on with property.
Waterville planners to get look at updated comprehensive plan
Document would set direction for city for next 10 years, from economic development to recycling.
Pittsfield bank robbed by man with sign demanding money
Friday afternoon’s Bangor Savings Bank robbery was the third bank robbery in Somerset County in the past month and second this week.