Area communities provide results of their annual Town Meetings.
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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Cambridge voters to consider withdrawing from school district
Voters at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting also will consider a $353,315 budget and spending $38,000 from surplus for a salt and sand pad on Route 150.
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Cornville voters approve a budget of just over $500,000
About 30 people turned out Saturday for the annual town meeting at the town hall where they also voted to increase town officer salaries by 2.8 percent.
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New Portland voters to consider $752,000 budget at annual meeting
Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting also will decide whether to use up to $50,000 from surplus for a salt and sand shed project in case the project total exceeds $270,000.
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Solon voters to consider proposed $878,000 budget at Town Meeting
Voters at Town Meeting on Saturday also will consider increasing the clerk/tax collector’s salary to keep the Town Office open four days a week.
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Embden voters to consider approving funds for future paving projects
Residents also will consider approving a 3 percent cost of living increase for town employees at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting.
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Cornville voters to consider $500,000 budget on Saturday
Voters will go to the polls from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, at the town hall to elect a selectman and road commissioner.
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St. Albans voters to consider spending up to $910,000 for road paving
Voters on Saturday also will consider making the town clerk position appointed, rather than elected.
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Amy Calder: Felines make best of friends
While Thurston and Bitsy are very different animals and quarrel sometimes, when push comes to shove, they have each other’s back, Amy Calder writes.
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Waterville animal shelter raises $220K, close to goal for staying open
Humane Society Waterville Area has raised more than $220,000 of its $250,000 goal set late last year to keep the shelter open and now the new executive director, Lisa Oakes, is starting to talk with larger donors, face-to-face.