The 22nd annual festival that runs July 12-21 will open with “Blow the Man Down,” a movie made in Maine with a mix of “dark humor, suspense, saltiness,” according to organizers.
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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Colby announces $26 million hotel project to start next month
The Lockwood Hotel, with 53 rooms, a restaurant, bar and limestone facade to reflect the city’s past, is expected to open in the fall of 2020.
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Decorated Army vet to Skowhegan crowd: ‘We are able to be here today largely thanks to those who are not’
Derek DeFelice, a Skowhegan business owner and Oakland resident, was the Memorial Day speaker Monday after Skowhegan’s parade, in which he also served as parade marshal.
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Listen to ‘that scream in your belly,’ television writer-producer David E. Kelley tells Colby class of 2019
An overcast sky turned sunny as 460 Colby seniors in the class of 2019 received degrees Sunday at the college’s 198th commencement on the Miller Library lawn on the Mayflower Hill campus.
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Car struck by mail truck hops curb, crashes on steps of Waterville business
No one was injured Monday when a mail truck exiting Getchell Street onto College Avenue struck a Mustang convertible, sending the convertible over a curb and knocking down a fire hydrant before landing on the second step of R.E. Drapeau Inc.
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Fairfield junk piles keep growing at Route 201 antiques business
Fairfield is considering what to do next about Robert Dale’s property on Skowhegan Road, according to Fairfield Town Manager Michelle Flewelling.
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Woman crashes car into Waterville nursing home
A woman, 69, apparently pressed the gas instead of the brake Wednesday morning, crashing the car she was driving into a metal column at the entryway to Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home on Highwood Street.
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Lawyer for Ayla’s father: DiPietro ‘had nothing to do’ with death
The lawyer for Ayla Reynolds’ mother, Trista Reynolds, filed a summons and complaint for wrongful death in the child’s disappearance in 2011.
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Award-winning producer and writer David E. Kelley to speak at Colby commencement
Kelley, son of legendary Colby hockey coach Jack Kelley and husband of actress Michelle Pfieffer, will speak May 26 on the college campus and is one of five being honored by Colby.
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Waterville council to consider leases for solar installations
The city would reap thousands of dollars in revenue annually for leasing the landfill and former Runser properties on Webb Road if the council approves the plan, according to City Manager Michael Roy.