Six college students from around the country will bicycle into Waterville Monday and spend the week spreading awareness about climate change and the dangers of tar sands and fossil fuel use.
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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Tall fences can’t block out memories of fateful December day
John Roy and Pati Redeagle have erected a fence between their home and the one next door, from which Ayla Reynolds disappeared in December 2011, but it doesn’t blot out memories of the missing toddler.
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Move-in for new Waterville police station delayed two weeks
Final details of transition are causing delays in police completing their move into the new $3.4 million Waterville police station.
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Cause of death for man found dead in Detroit home remains suspicious
State police on Friday identified a man found dead in his home early Thursday as 47-year-old Ricky Cole, and authorities still considered the death suspicious.
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Summit Natural Gas authorized to lay pipe in Waterville
Summit Natural Gas of Maine has been authorized to install distribution pipelines from Kennedy Memorial Drive to Silver and Elm streets and on to the Huhtamaki paper plant.
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Waterville council to consider recycling, waste practices
Waterville city councilors will consider forming a recycling committee to review the city’s solid waste and recycling practices.
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Waterville’s Albert S. Hall School welcomes new principal
Anson’s Barbara Jordan, assistant principal at George J. Mitchell School, replaces long-time principal Harriet Trafford.
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Recycling, solid waste on tonight’s Waterville City Council agenda
Proposed committee would study city’s contract with Oakland transfer station, Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. and the cost of curbside pickup.
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Jonathan Demme opens Maine International Film Festival with latest movie
The excitement was palpable Friday as film enthusiasts started appearing in Waterville for the opening of the 16th annual Maine International Film Festival.
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Lights, camera, action: Maine International Film Festival opens in Waterville
10-day festival enters digital age as about 80 of the 100 films to be shown at Railroad Square Cinema and the Waterville Opera House won’t be standard 35 mm