WATERVILLE — Residents are invited to learn all about the city charter at a community meeting Monday at Waterville Public Library.
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.
AMY CALDER: Don’t be such a Luddite
Well, I hate to admit it, but I must finally eat crow.
Opera house wants co-signer
WATERVILLE — The city is being asked to guarantee, or co-sign, a $1.25 million loan for the Waterville Opera House renovation project.
Police arrest Waterville man after 7 pounds of pot found in mail
Inspectors at the local post office who suspected a package contained illegal drugs were right.
Mom says man found dead was apparent suicide
WATERVILLE — Steven C. Brandon was a registered nurse, licensed massage therapist and propane delivery driver who was building a house in Thorndike when he disappeared in 2004 from his Winter Street apartment.
Seven pounds of marijuana found in mail
WATERVILLE — Inspectors at the local U.S. post office suspecting a package contained illegal drugs were right.
They found seven pounds of marijuana Wednesday inside a package mailed to Rajesh R. Ramharak, 31, of 84 Front St., police Chief Joseph Massey said Thursday.
Waterville council looks to increase city revenues
WATERVILLE — Ways to increase city revenues was a recurring theme in Tuesday night’s budget discussion. City Councilors reviewed figures for the assessing, city clerk, finance, information technology and administrative departments in the proposed $16.9 municipal budget. That budget and the proposed $19.8 million school budget represent a total proposed $36.8 million for 2012-13, which […]
Fire sparked by pellet stove pipe
WATERVILLE — Sparks from a wood pellet stove exhaust pipe caused a fire Monday that damaged a 200-year-old house at 44 Church St., fire Chief David Coughlin said Tuesday.
Oakland fire caused by sparks from stove exhaust pipe
WATERVILLE — Sparks from a wood pellet stove exhaust pipe caused a fire Monday that damaged a 200-year-old house at 44 Church St., fire Chief David Coughlin said Tuesday.