Town Manager Ella Bowman will receive the 2022 Municipal Employee of the Year Award at the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce’s 60th annual awards ceremony to be held April 27 at Enchanted Gables in Oakland.
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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Reporting Aside: With a shoestring budget and plenty of elbow grease, group looks to make Waterville shine
Volunteers turned out recently to help the nonprofit Waterville Community Land Trust erect a gazebo at the park and community garden it built on Water Street in the city’s South End, Amy Calder writes.
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Colby College Woodsmen team competes with Dartmouth, UVM
The team took part Saturday in a variety of events including pulp toss, cross-cut saw, log decking and axe throw.
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Ticonic Bridge to close for a night next week to prepare for construction project
The Ticonic Bridge, which spans the Kennebec River between Waterville and Winslow, will be replaced as part of a nearly $53 million project.
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Waterville Planning Board cites benefits of multimillion-dollar housing project
Head of Falls Village would include two buildings with a total of 63 housing units at the corner of Temple and Front streets.
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Waterville Planning Board to review latest proposal for apartment complex along Front Street
The board is expected Tuesday to hear preliminary plans for Head of Falls Village, which would include more than 60 apartments.
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As new school superintendent prepares to take the helm in Waterville, plenty of challenges await
Assistant Superintendent Peter Hallen is set to assume the top spot July 1 and already has critical areas to address.
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One person killed in China house fire, authorities say
Investigators believe the owner of the home at 93 Dutton Road, identified as 53-year-old David Buchanan, died in Friday’s fire.
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Reporting Aside: Move along, April, you fickle month
As Robert Frost penned in his poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” April has a habit of taking us a step into summer and then two back into winter, Amy Calder writes.
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Day’s Jewelers to move Waterville corporate offices to The Elm on College Avenue
The company will lease the first floor from local businessman Bill Mitchell, who says the City Council chambers and First Congregational Church United Church of Christ and its related Essentials Closet will remain on the lower level of the building.