A growing number of people in the Waterville area find themselves without a home, without a job and hungry.
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 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, 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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Eight homeless after Waterville fire
Eight people, including several children, are homeless after fire ripped through their apartment building in the city’s South End early today.
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Maine’s homeless youth a hidden problem
A girl and her baby sleep for weeks in a car because she’s not old enough to stay at the local homeless shelter – that’s just one example of the cases that Maine social service workers are seeing.
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Maine lawmakers: Civility not a lost art
Leaders of both parties say contentious issues did not lead to acrimonious debate last session.
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19 Colby students charged during party
WATERVILLE — Nineteen Colby College students were summonsed early Saturday on alcohol-related charges at an off-campus party on Collette Street, according to police.
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Dozens of Colby College partiers face alcohol charges
Underage students caught at the off-campus party also will be ‘subject to discipline on campus.’
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UPDATE: Arson ruled cause of Waterville apartment fire
WATERVILLE — A fast-moving fire that destroyed a three-story apartment building on Water Street Monday night has been ruled arson.
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Dozens at Colby face alcohol-related charges
Colby Vice President Sally Baker says, “All will be subject to discipline on campus.”
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Sidney farmer faces animal trespassing charge
SIDNEY — A Drummond Road farmer faces charges of animal trespassing because his cows and goats allegedly wander off his property and graze dangerously close to Interstate 95.
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Waterville police chief wants big dogs kept away from children
WATERVILLE — Police Chief Joseph Massey is on a mission to keep dogs known to be aggressive out of homes with children.