Bridge Year program at Waterville High gives students a head start toward a college degree at a fraction of the cost.
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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Detroit to consider reshingling part of salt and sand shed roof
Detroit’s Town Meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Truck carrying 30,000 pounds of live lobsters overturns on Interstate 95 in Benton
The truck driver swerved to avoid hitting a car, causing the tractor-trailer carrying lobsters from Nova Scotia to flip over on the side of the highway.
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Waterville council OKs study of traffic roundabout
The design is one of three options the city is considering for the intersection of Spring, Water, Bridge and Main streets.
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Waterville to consider roundabout pitched by Colby planner
The college has offered to cover the cost of adding the roundabout to a traffic-pedestrian study of the Spring, Water, Main and Bridge street intersection.
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Freedom adopts local food ordinance that waives liability
The measure challenges the state and federal government, declaring interference in the rights spelled out in the ordinance are unlawful.
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Man at burning home threatens to kill firefighters, chief says
Firefighters managed to strap the man down and send him to a Bangor hospital, allowing them to put out the fire in Thorndike.
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Benton voters reject comprehensive plan overhaul
Opponents defeated the measure even though a Planning Board member said the state requires the revision.
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Safety, upkeep of buildings overwhelm Waterville code office
The city’s code enforcement officer says foreclosed real estate and landlord-tenant disputes add to the workload.
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Waterville firefighters make quick work of house fire
A fire in a 15-room apartment building on Silver Street was confined to the first floor.