Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Saturdays in both 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 (who is proud to say she was born in Waterville), she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work in the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds more than two dozen awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2023
Waterville, shelter officials help homeless people at river find shelter as bitter weather arrives
City Manager Bryan Kaenrath is asking people to train to become volunteers to help staff a warming center during severe weather this winter.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2023
$35 million Waterville housing project slated to launch next year
Head of Falls Village is expected to include two buildings with 18 workforce and 45 market-rate apartments on the corner of Front and Temple streets in downtown Waterville.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2023
Housing project at former Waterville mill moves forward after developer secures financing
North River Co. plans to transform the former Lockwood Mill at 6 Water St. into 65 affordable apartments and some commercial space as part of the $40 million project.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2023
Skowhegan man arrested after woman is run over by vehicle in Bingham
Ryan Paul Mann, 43, is charged with aggravated assault and driving to endanger. The woman remains at a Portland hospital with severe injuries, including four fractures to her pelvis.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2023
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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PublishedNovember 10, 2023
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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PublishedNovember 8, 2023
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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PublishedNovember 6, 2023
Waterville City Council to consider ditching yurt idea, seeking longer-term solutions for the homeless
Mayor Jay Coelho is withdrawing his request to spend up to $10,000 to install yurts on the riverfront, instead asking the city to seek solutions that include an emergency warming shelter and ramped-up outreach to the homeless encampment at Head of Falls.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2023
Two arrested in connection with robberies at Waterville bank, Fairfield convenience store
The bank robbery occurred Tuesday at Bangor Savings Bank at 366 Main St. in Waterville, and officials said the same people were responsible hours later for robbing the Circle K convenience store at 149 Norridgewock Road in Fairfield.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2023
Woman accused of stealing money from Waterville youth center pleads no contest
Sherrie Anne Genness of Belgrade could serve up to 30 months in prison and be required to pay up to $221,695 to the Alfond Youth & Community Center, according to a spokeswoman for the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
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