Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Saturdays 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 (who is proud to say she was born in Waterville), she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work in the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds more than two dozen awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2021
Starks voters approve proposed $564,806 budget, carbon fee request
Fifty-two people turned out Friday at the Starks Community Center to vote on referendums and reelect officials.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2021
A tie in Rome selectman’s race ends when candidate exits from contest
The annual Rome Town Meeting and elections were anything but business as usual Friday and Saturday as a tie in the first selectman’s race was broken when the incumbent announced she was exiting the contest and charged that some officials had tried to smear her name.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2021
Amy Calder: Vaccination day was like Christmas
It’s no exaggeration to say that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is a life-affirming experience, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2021
Proponents of climate change carbon resolution voice message at town meetings, other venues
Representatives of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby are promoting at town meetings and municipal meetings a resolution to be sent to state and federal officeholders to support a fee on fossil fuel sales that once collected would be distributed to residents as a dividend.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2021
Freedom voters reelect selectman, clerk, treasurer
Freedom elections were held by secret ballot Friday at the election hall next to the town office.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2021
Freedom to elect selectman, clerk, treasurer at Friday vote, hold Town Meeting later
Freedom elections will be held Friday, but the annual Town Meeting, which typically is held the next day, will be held at a date to be announced.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2021
Albion residents to vote on proposed $1.18 million budget at Town Meeting
The annual Town Meeting will be held at 10 a.m. at the Albion Fire Station on March 20. Elections are set for 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. March 19 at the Besse Building.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2021
Residents to vote on new plow truck at Palmyra Town Meeting
Voters also to consider setting aside funds to conduct a town revaluation.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2021
Benton devises creative way to conduct annual Town Meeting with virtual forum, voting later
Benton voters may take part in virtual or conference call discussions on the Town Meeting warrant articles Wednesday and Thursday evenings this week and may vote by secret ballot on all articles March 27 at the town office or do so by absentee ballot.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2021
Woman indicted on charge she stole more than $10,000 from Alfond Youth Center in Waterville
Sherrie Anne Genness, 43, who worked as an office manager at the Alfond Youth & Community Center, is accused of taking the money over five years.
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