Mayor Nick Isgro’s proclamation honors Christopher Columbus, who has become a reminder of the oppression and pain endured by the native people of the Caribbean islands, despite recent Maine law marking the state holiday as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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: There are a lot of odd, quirky, peculiar road names
Central Maine is home to lots of unusual street and road names, but the town of Skowhegan takes the cake for the most whimsical, columnist Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville homeless shelter names new executive director
Katie Spencer White, of Brunswick, is the new executive director of the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter, succeeding Betty Palmer, who resigned a year ago.
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Amy Calder: Living life on his own terms
Gerry Jacques, 86, of Waterville, is a U.S. Navy veteran who built houses all his life and lives alone in retirement.
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Pesticides are focus of keynote speech at the Common Ground County Fair in Unity
Investigative journalist and author Carey Gillam, who also is research director of U.S. Right to Know, spoke Saturday about pesticides, how they relate to health problems, and how corporations and policy makers continue to focus on profit over health.
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The 43rd annual Common Ground Country Fair opens Friday
Locally-sourced food, crafts, speakers, workshops and livestock events are among offerings at the three-day fair, which draws about 60,000 visitors annually.
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Waterville Fire Department gets OK to buy tower truck
Waterville City Councilors approved more than $1 million in fire department purchases, including a fire tower truck, a resurfacing of the fire station floor and repairing masonry at the station.
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Waterville council, despite pushback from mayor, OKs rezoning for marijuana store near highway
Councilors voted 5-1 to approve the zoning change to allow an adult-use marijuana store at 475 Kennedy Memorial Drive with Chiarman Sydney Mayhew the lone dissenter.
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Former Jackman physician assistant indicted, re-arrested
Gerald Keenan was arrested Friday by State Police in Brewer and faces 21 counts related to sexual contact or assault on two pre-teen boys in Jackman where Keenan worked in the 1990s.
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Marijuana store, more than $1 million in Fire Department purchases on Waterville council agenda
In addition to considering a request to rezone part of 475 Kennedy Memorial Drive to allow an adult-use marijuana store there, the City Council on Tuesday will consider awarding contracts to buy a fire ladder truck, resurface the fire station floor and do masonry repair, accept a FEMA Grant for the fire department and appoint a panel to study fire services.