Susan T. Rodriguez, the lead architect for the $18 million art center in downtown Waterville, discusses the building’s design process.
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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Amy Calder: For the love of animals, and meat consumption
It’s interesting that we humans can be repulsed by the sight of animals being slaughtered yet we love to consume the meat they provide.
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Skowhegan High’s speech club wins states while 3 Waterville High students will compete in nationals
Skowhegan team goes undefeated, while Waterville team, revived in 2017 through a donation honoring donor’s brother, will send three underclassmen virtually to the national competition in June.
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Waterville council votes to approve outdoor dining licenses
The downtown restaurants 18 Below, Amici’s Cucina, Opa and more received permission to have outdoor dining this year.
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Waterville City Council to consider establishing housing board, approving outdoor dining requests
Councilors are also expected to consider a resolution supporting Asian Americans, and awarding a $436,887 contract to Pike Industries Inc. for work on Eight Rod and Marston roads.
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For Oakland man, trapping beaver a lifelong avocation
Caleb Jones, 28, sets traps in large waterways all over Kennebec County, and helps remove beavers from people’s property, where the rodents chew through trees.
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Video: Interfaith Council hosts Easter sunrise service at Head of Falls in Waterville
About 50 worshippers attend 6 a.m. service, near Two-Cent Bridge spanning Kennebec River.
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Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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Amy Calder: With Easter comes hope
Easter in the 1950s and ’60s meant donning pastel-colored dresses, patent leather shoes and bonnets and listening to mysterious sermons in church, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville plans to accommodate businesses, building owners during construction
An $11.2 million downtown revitalization project, to include changing the traffic pattern on Main and Front streets, is occurring simultaneously with construction of the $18 million Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street.