Maine lawmakers approved a measure Monday allowing the creation in the state of another regional emergency communications center, which could benefit 16 Kennebec County communities, many of which were weeks away from losing dispatching services.
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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Waterville Planning Board to consider downtown housing proposal
The DePre family is proposing to build 21 apartments at 155 and 165 Main St., across the street from the Colby College-owned Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons.
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Mount View High School graduation ceremony gets philosophical
The 67 seniors walked away with a question to ponder, courtesy of their principal: ‘Who are you?’
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Woofstock brings food, friends, music — oh, and dogs
About 35 people ran or walked the 5K Woof Run Saturday in Waterville at the Woofstock festival to help raise funds for Humane Society Waterville Area.
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Reporting Aside: One man’s kind gesture has uplifting effect
Debra Brown’s opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville City Council gives preliminary approval to $56.34 million municipal and school budget
The combined budget for 2023-24 represents an increase of $4.8 million from the spending plan approved last year, driven largely by bumps in salaries and rising costs for electricity, fuel and liability insurance.
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Skowhegan Area High School graduates 144
The graduation, held Sunday at the school on West Front Street, drew more than 1,500 family, friends and faculty members to the gymnasium and auditorium.
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Reporting Aside: Graduates, want some unsolicited advice? Yes, yes you do.
Work hard but be lazy, earn money but occasionally splurge, sleep long, eat well and spend time with old people, Amy Calder advises high school graduates.
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Two dozen earn ‘success card,’ and brighter future, after graduating from adult education program
A graduation ceremony was held Thursday outside Waterville Senior High School for students who were part of the Mid-Maine Regional Adult Community Education program.
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Improper disposal of smoking material caused fatal Waterville fire, officials say
Smoking is not allowed on the Elm Towers property at 60 Elm St., where a fire May 22 caused the death of Ronald Kennerson, 65, in whose apartment the fire began, investigators said.