The Elm at 21 College Ave. struggled during the coronavirus pandemic, but owner Bill Mitchell is in talks to repurpose the space and have a business relocate there.
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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Homeless in Maine: Struggling to survive even with a paying job
Those who interact most closely with the homeless say it’s a misconception that they don’t want to work or try to help themselves.
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Reporting Aside: Behold the perfection that is the Maine potato
After two or three days of eating poorly, all it takes to feel better again is to consume a hot Maine potato, mashed, dabbed with butter and salt-and-peppered, Amy Calder writes.
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Trinward elected chairwoman of Waterville Board of Education
Pamela Trinward, a lifelong Waterville resident, former state representative and 19-year member of the Board of Education, was elected Monday to chair the board, succeeding Joan Phillips-Sandy, who did not seek re-election in November.
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Reporting Aside: ‘Devastation visible everywhere’
Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, Morning Sentinel
Oakland man arrested by police in Waterville Irving gas station robbery
Justin Murphy, 35, was arrested late Monday in Winslow and charged with robbery and theft in connection with the Circle K Irving station in Waterville earlier in the day, police said.
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Waterville woman with loaded AR-15 in vehicle taken into custody
The woman, who has mental health issues, led police on a chase throughout the city early Monday before they stopped her on a dead-end road on the Colby College campus and took her into protective custody.
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Wiscasset accident victim suffers serious injuries
Several off-duty medical professionals stopped to help Saturday when a man backing up his pickup truck with plow at Marketplace Plaza on U.S. Route 1 fell out of the truck, which then drove over him, according to police.
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Waterville Circle K Irving station robbed, police say
The robbery occurred at 1:44 a.m. Monday at the business, located on Kennedy Memorial Drive, near Interstate 95.
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Body recovered from North Pond in Smithfield after ATV breaks through ice
Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving his side-by-side UTV across the pond with his wife and two other adult passengers at about 1 a.m. Sunday when it broke through the ice, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.