Ahmed Adeyemi Aloya has vacationed in Belgrade most summers over the last 30 years and continues to discover new information about his grandfather, John J. McAuley, who was kidnapped from Nigeria around 1887.
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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Longtime fire chief in central Maine dies in Searsmont crash
George Studley, who was a member of the China Village Fire Department for more than 50 years. was serving as assistant chief at the time of his death.
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Colby family holds reunion at namesake college
The college is named for Gardner Colby, whose donation helped save the school in 1864.
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Animal shelters waiving adoption fees during ‘clearance’ event
The animals are spayed or neutered, receive primary vaccinations, dewormed and treated for fleas and ticks and dogs are microchipped.
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Maine colleges defend emphasis on diversity in response to report of Trump initiative
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin have race-based admissions policies, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional.
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A daughter’s enduring lament: ‘Her remains are out there’
Finding the mother she lost when she was 12 would help Honey Rourke of Lewiston feel solace – as would confirming to all the identity of the killer.
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Police search 2 water wells in probe of Fairfield woman’s 1976 disappearance
Convicted killer Albert Cochran, who died recently, told police that Pauline Rourke’s remains were in a well in the Smithfield area.
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Peter G. Alfond, business executive and active Maine philanthropist, dies of malaria
Peter Alfond, the son of Harold and Dorothy ‘Bibby’ Alfond and a key board member of their philanthropic foundation, died Monday after contracting the disease in Africa.
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Missing Connecticut woman found safe in Bangor
Kimberly Piccolo’s mother says her daughter was found in a parked car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
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After convicted killer dies, police plead for help finding clues in central Maine woman’s death
Pauline Rourke disappeared in 1976 just weeks after her then-boyfriend, Albert Cochran, 79, killed Janet Baxter of Oakland.