The plan encourages people to take personal responsibility by not coming to school when sick.
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 voters approve new building ordinance
About 60 people turned out for the meeting at the community center, passing all 31 articles, with few amendments, in about 2 1/2 hours, according to officials.
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Athens voters reject solar ordinance, approve moratorium on wireless transmission
About 40 people turned out Saturday for the Athens annual town meeting, approving a $743,619 budget that does not include school and county budgets.
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Driver in Embden crash charged with OUI, driving to endanger
Conrad Ayers, 22, of Waterville, was driving a 2020 Subaru Outback on New Portland Road in Embden when the vehicle drifted into the oncoming lane, striking a Honda Pilot with a man and three teenagers inside, according to a Somerset County Sheriff’s official.
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Reporting Aside: A tragic ending to a troubled life
The person found dead Feb. 26 in a school bus at Waterville Junior High School was transgender and struggled with mental health and other issues, according to friends and former co-workers.
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Waterville City Council gives initial OK for $50,000 to soup kitchen
Some city councilors said they were concerned that American Rescue Plan Act money would not be given equitably if, for instance, other social service agencies asking for the same amount and are denied.
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Thomas College President Laurie Lachance announces plan to retire next year
Lachance, the fifth president of the Waterville college, announced she will retire by June 2025.
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Reporting Aside: When beloved pets age
As a family pet approaches the end of its life, it is wiser to focus on the present rather than dwell on what is to come, Amy Calder writes.
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Pedestrian, 45, injured when hit by car in Waterville
The crash occurred Wednesday evening on Kennedy Memorial Drive, near JFK Plaza.
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Legal opinion says it ‘may have been appropriate’ for Oakland town councilor to abstain from Fire Department vote
Town Councilor David Groder, who is a volunteer, on-call emergency responder, voted last month to approve pay raises for firefighters, a move that a resident Kelly Roderick called a conflict of interest.