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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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Starks woman homeless after candles start house fire
STARKS — A fire started from unattended candles destroyed a house on Chicken Street early Sunday, leaving a woman and her pets homeless, according to Fire Chief Julie Costigan.
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Colby College celebrates its bicentennial
WATERVILLE — Nearly two hundred years ago, Baptists created the Maine Literary and Theological Institution north of downtown in an area now known as Colby Circle.
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Waterville area police and Somerset, Franklin logs, Sept. 1 and 2
Fireworks, thefts, vehicle burglaries
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Emben man dies, two other injured in New Portland crash
NEW PORTLAND — An Embden man died late Friday in a single-car accident on Wire Bridge Road, according to Somerset County Sheriff’s Detective Lt. Carl E. Gottardi II.
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Waterville area police and Somerset, Franklin logs, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1
Accidents, thefts, threatening
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Waterville man arrested in Bingham robbery
A Waterville man was arrested Friday in connection with a bank robbery in Bingham Thursday.
Paul Robinson, 40, was taken into custody about 5 p.m. by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department, which investigated the robbery of Camden National Bank on Main Street.
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Republicans seek to heal wounds at Waterville meeting
WATERVILLE — Ron Paul supporters on Saturday expressed frustration at the unseating of 10 Maine delegates at the Republican National Convention, saying they had been duly elected and were wrongly removed.
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Embden man dies in car crash
NEW PORTLAND — An Embden man died late Friday in a single-car accident on Wire Bridge Road, according to Somerset County Sheriff’s Detective Lt. Carl E. Gottardi II.