The Board of Education on Monday night voted 7-0 to trim the proposed $20.2 million school budget for 2013-14 by $130,831. The cuts came about a month after the board voted to cut $644,481 from an earlier proposed $20.8 million school budget.
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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The comfort of an old barn
There’s something exquisite about an old barn standing there in a field, a remnant of a time when farmers tossed hay into wagons with pitchforks on a hot summer day, the scent of fresh hay wafting through the air.
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Winslow Family Fourth celebration’s new chairman promises surprises
WINSLOW — The 23rd annual Winslow Family 4th of July Celebration will feature humorist Tim Sample, a giant parade, fireworks and new events including a children’s day in Halifax Park. The event will be under the direction of new chairman Kevin Douglas.
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Fire hits upper floors of Waterville Main Street building
Fire tore through the upper floors of a Waterville Main Street building Friday, damaging two shops on the first floor and leaving three apartment tenants homeless. There were no reports of injuries.
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Waterville Police ticketing for unreasonably loud exhausts
Waterville police are ticketing people whose loud exhaust systems are causing disturbances.
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Neighbors rally for fire victim, 82
Family and friends of the Benton man that lost his home to a fire this week searched through the rubble for anything salvageable.
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Waterville officials grapple with municipal, school budgets
Despite unknown revenue from the state, Waterville officials presented its proposed $37.3 million budget Tuesday.
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Instructor, Colby students reflect on visit to Cuba at global forum
Students and a professor from a Colby College comparative law class who traveled to Cuba in January recounted what they learned about the economic and judicial system in the communist country at a Global Forum Tuesday.
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Benton man, 82, loses home to fire
Clyde Berry, 82, of Benton, lost his Benton Avenue home and everything he owned in a fire early Monday.
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A loss in profits has Waterville recycling center shifting gears
Skills Recycling, of Waterville, is losing so much money that it plans to stop taking paper, plastic, cans and glass starting July 1, but will continue recycling computers and electronics.