Town councilors Wednesday did not seek public input, or even indicate they would be voting on a new manager, before promoting Kelly Pinney-Michaud.
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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Oakland Town Council approves revaluation payment schedule
Councilors approved the payment plan Wednesday for a $340,000 townwide revaluation that’s scheduled for 2026.
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Waterville board votes to deny mobile home park request to add lots
Two double-wide mobile homes were placed earlier on lots at Countryside Mobile Home Park but it was done without approval of the Planning Board, and on Tuesday the board chose not to retroactively OK the homes, with some members raising concerns with ongoing problems at the park.
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Fairfield concert to benefit Waterville Police Department’s Operation HOPE
The concert is scheduled for Saturday at Lawrence High School and will serve as a fundraiser for a program that helps those addicted to opioids get into treatment facilities.
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Colby College surpasses $750 million capital campaign goal, extends it to $1 billion
The college’s Dare Northward campaign has raised more than $780 million and will now continue to the end of 2027.
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Waterville board to visit park where two mobile homes were placed without approval
The Planning Board will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday on Victoria Drive at Countryside Mobile Home Park at 457 West River Road.
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Waterville church faces backlash over plan to raze adjacent apartment buildings
First Church of Waterville, formerly known as the First Baptist Church, bought two apartment buildings and plans to tear them down to expand parking and build a handicapped accessible entrance to the back of the church.
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Reporting Aside: Many became equine experts following column on horse in Waterville
An innocuous recent column on lessons to be learned from the Amish way of life, which ran along with a photo of a horse munching on hay at Home Depot, generated a flurry of opinions from readers on the condition of the horse, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville City Council adopts winter plan to help homeless
Councilors on Wednesday postponed indefinitely a proposal to buy yurts to house homeless people now living in tents on city property near the Kennebec River.
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Alfond Center in Waterville to host its annual community dinner
The Alfond Youth & Community Center on North Street is expected to have up to 1,000 people attend the 99th annual Holiday Community Dinner on Thursday.