A businessman new to politics and an incumbent who says he wants to continue working for residents are competing for a state Legislature seat to represent parts of Oakland and Waterville.
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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Lachowicz, Martin offer experience in race that has drawn national interest
An incumbent Republican state senator representing parts of Kennebec and Somerset counties faces opposition in November from a Democrat who has been active in both local and state politics.
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District 25 candidates downplay national attention
Candidates for Senate District 25 on Friday glossed over a declaration by a Washington, D.C.-based Democratic group that called the race one of the key battlegrounds in the country and perhaps the most nationally watched state-level legislative race in the U.S.
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Waterville police log and arrests, Oct. 11 and 12
Illegal dumping, threatening, intoxicated person
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Waterville Spirit Night set for Friday
WATERVILLE — A downtown parade, pep rally, bonfire and street dance at Head of Falls Friday will mark the annual Community Spirit Night festivities.
The Spirit Night planned for Sept. 28 was postponed because of rain, according to organizer Shanon Gurski Dixon.
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Colby fellow seeks to curb South African violence
WATERVILLE — Imagine living in a community where your daughters are raped and beaten on their way to school, abducted and forced to marry men they do not choose and then scorned by the community as impure.
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Pecking away at chicken raising in Waterville
WATERVILLE — Heather Merrow scattered shredded cabbage on the ground and her chickens came, clucking.