Wearing proper foot gear this time of year can mean the difference between a safe trek to the mailbox and a painful ride to the hospital, Amy Calder writes.
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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Fire damages Gifford’s ice cream production facility in Skowhegan
A company official said the fire began Thursday morning in a processing area where milk and cream are mixed for the company’s well-known ice cream.
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Fire damages biomass plant at Colby College in Waterville
The fire early Wednesday is believed to have started when smoldering wood ash ignited wood chips on a conveyor belt in the plant, according to Waterville fire Chief Shawn Esler.
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Police investigate burglary at Waterville business under renovation
Workers were renovating a building at 72 Armory Road for the new SweetFrog location, when someone stole power tools last week from inside the building.
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Downtown Waterville’s revamped traffic design has merchants looking at brighter days ahead
Business owners have largely praised downtown improvements and the new two-way traffic pattern, but city officials say some tweaks may be in order for the intersection adjacent to the Ticonic Bridge.
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Reporting Aside: Space shuttle tragedy continues to reverberate 37 years later
Christa McAuliffe was 37 and a popular teacher from New Hampshire when she and six others died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, Amy Calder writes.
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Snow followed by rain tamps down snowfall totals in central Maine
The most recent storm to move into the region left about 6 inches of snow in places such as Jackman and Manchester, but when people got up Thursday morning the totals had diminished due to the following rain.
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Project planned for downtown Waterville would provide more than 60 housing units
As part of the plan, buildings at the corner of Temple and Front streets, as well as a former office building at the corner of Appleton and Front, would be razed and two buildings initially constructed in their place.
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Garage in China destroyed by fire, vehicles damaged
No one was hurt in the blaze Tuesday morning on Pleasant View Ridge Road, according to a fire official.
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Colby College students aim for the skies by learning about aviation, as a career and foray into other fields
The 13 students participating in the aviation course said they learned not only how to fly as part of the program, but also how small airports are critical to local economies, and how aviation relates to an array of business opportunities.