Councilors will spend $9,000 to have Eaton Peabody Consulting Group lead the search to find a replacement for Steve Daly, who abruptly resigned as the city’s manager in December.
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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Panel once again looking for partners to relaunch Hampden waste-to-energy plant
The Municipal Review Committee ended its exclusivity agreement with New York-based Revere Capital Partners to help operate and partially own the Municipal Waste Solutions plant when it did not meet deadlines for submitting an engineering report and other documents.
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Severe cold causes water main breaks, frozen pipes
The Kennebec Water District received four reports of water main breaks in Waterville and Winslow on Saturday and all have been repaired, according to superintendent Roger Crouse, who said it is “extremely rare” to have four breaks in one day.
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Heat gun that was left on cited as source of fire at Gifford’s ice cream in Skowhegan
The heat gun was left atop a pallet of combustible materials inside a walk-in freezer, leading to the fire Thursday that damaged offices and a production area at Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream, according to Skowhegan fire Chief Ronnie Rodriguez.
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Reporting Aside: If there’s any lesson you fall for it’s this — beware the wretched ice
Wearing proper foot gear this time of year can mean the difference between a safe trek to the mailbox and a painful ride to the hospital, Amy Calder writes.
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Fire damages Gifford’s ice cream production facility in Skowhegan
A company official said the fire began Thursday morning in a processing area where milk and cream are mixed for the company’s well-known ice cream.
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Fire damages biomass plant at Colby College in Waterville
The fire early Wednesday is believed to have started when smoldering wood ash ignited wood chips on a conveyor belt in the plant, according to Waterville fire Chief Shawn Esler.
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Police investigate burglary at Waterville business under renovation
Workers were renovating a building at 72 Armory Road for the new SweetFrog location, when someone stole power tools last week from inside the building.
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Downtown Waterville’s revamped traffic design has merchants looking at brighter days ahead
Business owners have largely praised downtown improvements and the new two-way traffic pattern, but city officials say some tweaks may be in order for the intersection adjacent to the Ticonic Bridge.
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Reporting Aside: Space shuttle tragedy continues to reverberate 37 years later
Christa McAuliffe was 37 and a popular teacher from New Hampshire when she and six others died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, Amy Calder writes.