Some Waterville residents, who oppose holding council meetings in the Colby College-owed building downtown, said people can carry handguns in a city-owned building but not at the Colby facility.
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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Fleeing Maine bank robber slips, spills money, gun in front of lieutenant, police say
The suspect slips on the ice across from the Bangor Savings Bank in the parking lot of a Waterville restaurant, where a state police lieutenant happened to be parked.
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‘Numerous’ cats and dogs removed from house in Skowhegan after search
Skowhegan police and state animal welfare agents arrested a man at a Waterville Road home Wednesday as part of an investigation and found excrement all over the floors and walls.
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Portland man arrested on OUI charge in three-vehicle Norridgewock crash
A Cornville man was taken to the hospital after the crash, which occurred on Madison Road and destroyed two vehicles.
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No cause yet in Skowhegan apartment fire that sent one person to the hospital
State fire investigators planned to interview people Monday about the fire, which was reported at 11:31 a.m. Sunday at a 6-unit building at 386 Water St.
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Tractor-trailer gets stuck on Waterville fire escape
The Dollar General truck making a delivery is freed by first responders.
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Video: Team from central Maine takes second place in national snow sculpting contest
The Carvivores, a three-woman team, carved one day in wind chill that made the temperature seem like 55 below zero in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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Sustain Mid-Maine to move out of Waterville City Hall after mayor complains
Mayor Nick Isgro calls the environmental organization, which supports a plastic bag ban he opposes, a “special interest group.”
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Fire at Huhtamaki paper products plant draws huge response
Dozens of firefighters from about 15 communities battled the blaze at the business on the Waterville-Fairfield line.
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Waterville mayor wants environmental group out of City Hall
Sustain Mid-Maine Coalition has had a small corner of an office in City Hall for a few years at no charge, but Mayor Nick Isgro wants the city manager to give the nonprofit notice that the city no longer will allow that.