Kennebec Sanitary Treatment District Superintendent Timothy LeVasseur said Tuesday that 34 million, not 15 million, gallons of sewage flowed into the Kennebec River when a sewer main broke.
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 pipe break dumps 15 million gallons of sewage into Kennebec River
The Nov. 29 break was sparked by the unusual placement of a sewer pipe inside a stormwater pipe on Water Street in the 1970s and then encasing it in concrete.
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Woman robbed while making night deposit at Waterville bank
A woman making a deposit at Kennebec Savings Bank on Main Street at 7:48 p.m. Thursday reported being grabbed from behind by a white male who took the money bag and ran, according to Waterville Deputy police Chief Bill Bonney.
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Sheriff’s Office seeks help identifying driver who damaged Detroit substation
A driver apparently failed to stop at a stop sign Sunday in Detroit and crashed into a substation, causing more than $150,000 worth of damage, and then drove away.
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Hundreds gather to honor Winslow fire captain
Fire and law enforcement officials from across the state gathered at Centerpoint Community Church in Waterville to honor Winslow fire Capt. Scott Higgins who died Monday at 49.
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Amy Calder: At 96, U.S. Navy veteran Clara Gilbert reflects
Gilbert, of Skowhegan, served in the Bureau of Navy Personnel in Arlington, Virginia, from 1943 to 1945.
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Police help FBI search house, vehicles at Waterville property
Waterville police and Waldo County Sheriff officers were at a house on Elmwood Avenue Wednesday morning, assisting federal officers in a search of a home and vehicles parked in the driveway.
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Mourners gather to remember slain Waterville mother
Melissa Sousa, 29, of 32 Gold St., was killed last week, allegedly by Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, her longtime live-in boyfriend and the father of the couple’s 8-year-old twin daughters.
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Donations for family of slain Waterville woman are stolen
Police said donation canisters at three Dunkin’ Donuts shops in Waterville to benefit the family of Melissa Sousa were stolen over the weekend.