The Waterville City Council took a final vote Tuesday to approve TIF district for the building, which is expected to have retail space on the ground floor.
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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Waterville board approves site plan for $25 million Colby building
City Council to take final votes on tax program for project Tuesday
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Waterville Board of Education to host special budget meeting Wednesday
Waterville Board of Education members will discuss the school budget and have a first look at proposed spending plans for several school departments for the 2017-18 school year.
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Colby College residential complex in downtown Waterville set for final votes
A planned $25 million residential complex for Colby College on the northeast tip of The Concourse downtown is under consideration for local approvals in the coming week, clearing the way for construction to start.
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Benton voters to consider $625,000 budget at Town Meeting
A request to provide health insurance for three office staff members is also on the meeting warrant that will be considered Saturday.
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Waterville school officials to study feasibility of closing Albert S. Hall School
Superintendent Eric Haley is citing rising costs, declining enrollments and scarcity of school funding as reasons for studying the closure of the city school serving fourth- and fifth-graders.
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Waterville welcomes new finance director, says goodbye to longtime IT director
City Hall is adding new Finance Director Heather Rowden, bidding farewell to Information Technology Director John Grant and expecting to hire Grant’s replacement soon.
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Police: Man squatted overnight at Waterville fitness club, ordered pizza, stole property
Eric Davis allegedly claimed he was a security guard at Champions Fitness Club in Waterville after helping himself to drinks, thumbing through paperwork and stealing an iPod.
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New Waterville committee to discuss parking issues downtown
A parking garage, paid parking spaces and enforcement rules are expected to be discussed as the group considers the effect of hundreds of more people living and working downtown.
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Electrical problem sparked Waterville apartment fire, chief says
Fire Chief David LaFountain warns that people should not remove batteries from smoke detectors, as happened when the Feb. 1 fire broke out on Summer Street.