The Dollar General truck making a delivery is freed by first responders.
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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Video: Team from central Maine takes second place in national snow sculpting contest
The Carvivores, a three-woman team, carved one day in wind chill that made the temperature seem like 55 below zero in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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Sustain Mid-Maine to move out of Waterville City Hall after mayor complains
Mayor Nick Isgro calls the environmental organization, which supports a plastic bag ban he opposes, a “special interest group.”
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Fire at Huhtamaki paper products plant draws huge response
Dozens of firefighters from about 15 communities battled the blaze at the business on the Waterville-Fairfield line.
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Waterville mayor wants environmental group out of City Hall
Sustain Mid-Maine Coalition has had a small corner of an office in City Hall for a few years at no charge, but Mayor Nick Isgro wants the city manager to give the nonprofit notice that the city no longer will allow that.
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Meet The Carvivores: 3 women to represent Maine in national snow-sculpting contest
The central Maine sculptors — Cathy Thompson; her daughter, Amanda Bolduc; and Serena Sanborn — will compete with 14 other teams next week on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin.
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Car hits bridge abutments, rolls over on icy I-95 bridge in Waterville
The crash causes a backup.
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Young man, daughter, 5, left homeless after Cornville fire
The Blaze at a mobile home apparently is caused by heaters placed near frozen water pipes.
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Report of man loading a handgun at Waterville Walmart a case of mistaken perception
Police learned in their investigation that the man was merely trying to secure his pellet gun that had slipped out of his waistband when his pants fell down.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
District attorney declines to prosecute shooter in Newport case
Marianne Lynch said police did a thorough investigation of the case, but she determined her office could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed.