Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area receive $10,000 grant to expand Hope’s Place to Somerset County and are collaborating on the services with Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County.
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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Racist flyers mailed to Skowhegan area school board members, others
The flyers feature a Ku Klux Klan hood, confederate flag and an Eye of Providence, and falsely says there will be a white supremacist Maine Green Independent Party fall gathering Oct. 27 at Belfast Public Library.
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Waterville Planning Board considers 75-unit mobile home park
Rick Breton wants to add mobile homes to Countryside Trailer Park which he already owns off West River Road.
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Passenger hurt in Madison motorcycle crash; driver charged with OUI
A woman was seriously injured Saturday when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger crashed on Nichols Street in Madison.
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Artwork from children in detention camps coming Saturday to Waterville
Mary Dunn, who has traveled to the U.S. and Mexican border, is helping to organize the exhibit, as well as a silent auction fundraiser Oct. 12 at Hathaway Creative Center to help asylum seekers with humanitarian aid and legal services.
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Amy Calder: More odd road names
Amy Calder shares emails she received from readers about last week’s column on quirky street names, offering more odd ones.
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Colby College honors courageous acts of reporters and photojournalists
The college on Friday honored 66 journalists who died in 2018 with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award named for the Albion native who was killed while defending his newspaper in Illinois from an pro-slavery mob.
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Kennebec Valley Community Action Program offices in Waterville evacuated due to gas odor report
Waterville Fire Department checked four KVCAP buildings and homes in the area on Water Street in the city’s South End but found no problems related to natural gas or propane.
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Two injured in crash on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville
The crash occurred near the corner of Carver Street and Kennedy Memorial Drive when a sport utility vehicle and small sedan collided, sending the SUV on its roof and the sedan smashing into a sign.
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Area residents call Waterville mayor out over Columbus proclamation
Mayor Nick Isgro read aloud a proclamation at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, declaring Oct. 14 Columbus Day, which drew criticism from the public, including one woman who asked him to apologize.