Councilors voted 7-0 to approve a five-year lease, with a five-year extension, for Black Bear Aviation.
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.
Central Maine police officer to receive Spirit of America award for helping to save man’s life
Dozens of volunteers and organizations from around Kennebec County will be honored Wednesday night.
Massachusetts tech company plans to bring 200 jobs to Waterville
Collaborative Consulting, an IT firm, plans to locate a delivery center in the Hathaway Creative Center.
Man in Waterville standoff had financial troubles, left suicide note
Police say the situation ‘ended well for us and it ended well for him.’
Passer-by to boy in deadly Sidney crash: ‘We’re going to get you out’
Strangers from Oakland, Eliot and elsewhere pulled the 8-year-old from a pickup truck moments before it burst into flames in an accident that killed his great-aunt.
Waterville standoff suspect is in state police protective custody
Police from half a dozen agencies worked to get Gary Cross, 58, of Troy, to negotiate and surrender for more than eight hours at a cost of ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars.’
Benton man identified as victim in deadly crash
Bystanders pulled to safety the driver of the pickup truck hit by Joseph Defazio’s Trans Am after the crash on Sunday on Route 139 where Defazio was found dead.
At least two dead in fatal crashes in Sidney and Benton
In Sidney, bystanders pull an 8-year-old boy from a pickup before it catches fire with the driver still inside; in Benton, another person dies in a two-vehicle accident.
Waterville school board asks acting high school principal to stay on
The School Board voted 7-0 Wednesday to ask Brian Laramee to stay while Principal Don Reiter is on paid administrative leave.
Reiter expected to plead not guilty to charge related to propositioning student
The former Waterville Senior High School principal is scheduled for a February court appearance on the misdemeanor official oppression charge.