Amy Calder

1 week ago | madison.com | Amy Calder

Memorial Day is a holiday to honor those who died while serving the country. While my grandfather, Ross Pember Calder, didn’t die while serving, I consider him a casualty of war. Because of that, I never got to meet him because he died 13 years before I was born. He lived in Durham, Maine, and served in World War I, where he was mustard-gassed and contracted tuberculosis as a result. My father was serving in the Southwest Pacific in the U.S. Navy in World War II when he got word his father had died.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Calder

May 20—WATERVILLE — City councilors decided to delay taking an initial vote on a proposed $64.8 million municipal and school budget Tuesday after debating at length about whether to hire more emergency medical personnel to staff a third ambulance. Hiring the staff for the next fiscal year would cost the city $601,000, they said, and it is unclear how much money would be required for the years after that.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Calder

May 20—VASSALBORO — Two dogs were rescued from a fire Tuesday afternoon that damaged a two-unit home on North Belfast Road. Vassalboro fire Chief Walker Thompson said from the scene that the dogs were saved from one unit, and the other unit was unoccupied. The Office of State Fire Marshal is investigating the cause. "We got here and found heavy fire and smoke contained in the kitchen area," Thompson said after 5 p.m. "We're still here, waiting on the fire marshal to help determine the cause.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Calder

May 13—WATERVILLE — The Waterville Board of Education on Monday voted unanimously to approve a proposed $34.2 million school budget for 2025-26. The school proposal represents a 5.97% increase, or $1.9 million, over the current $32.2 million budget.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Calder

May 13—WATERVILLE — At least nine people were displaced Tuesday when fire damaged an apartment building on Summer Street in the city's South End. The fire is believed to have started in the area of an attached storage barn and then it spread into an apartment on the second floor and a half-story above it, said Waterville fire battalion Chief John Gromek, who was at the scene.