Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, 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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Waterville woman with loaded AR-15 in vehicle taken into custody
The woman, who has mental health issues, led police on a chase throughout the city early Monday before they stopped her on a dead-end road on the Colby College campus and took her into protective custody.
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Wiscasset accident victim suffers serious injuries
Several off-duty medical professionals stopped to help Saturday when a man backing up his pickup truck with plow at Marketplace Plaza on U.S. Route 1 fell out of the truck, which then drove over him, according to police.
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Body recovered from North Pond in Smithfield after ATV breaks through ice
Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving his side-by-side UTV across the pond with his wife and two other adult passengers at about 1 a.m. Sunday when it broke through the ice, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
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Skowhegan search turns up more illegal drugs, another gun
Police searched a vehicle late Saturday and early Sunday, seizing $10,700 in cash, 286 grams of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl and a handgun, in a case related to arrests and drug seizures Thursday and Friday.
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Police, school officials investigate racist graffiti painted on Waterville elementary school
Peter Hallen, assistant superintendent of Waterville Public Schools, said it is important to find those responsible for the graffiti, but having the schools and Waterville community address the issue is critical to spreading awareness and effecting change.
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Skowhegan police continue to investigate drug case
Five people were arrested and more than $9,000 worth of illegal drugs seized Friday in Skowhegan, according to police.
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Woman loses everything when fire destroys China home
The woman who lived at the mobile home at 49 Chadwick Way in the Weeks Mills area of China was uninsured, a fire official said Thursday.
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Bowdoin man summoned after pickup truck hits Waterville apartment building
Police say the Dodge pickup was traveling at high speed Monday night on College Avenue when it left the road, snapped off a utility pole and crashed into the apartment building, causing what the building owner says is tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
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Eleven years after disappearance of Ayla Reynolds, wrongful death suit, police probe continue
Ayla was reported missing Dec. 17, 2011, by her father, Justin DiPietro, from her grandmother’s Violette Avenue home in Waterville, launching the most costly state police investigation in Maine history, and she has never been found.