Amy Calder

Morning Sentinel

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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Published
December 9, 2020

First adult-use marijuana store in Kennebec County opens in Waterville

Sweet Dirt, an Eliot-based company, opened Wednesday in the former Pine Cone Gift & Furniture Shop on Kennedy Memorial Drive.
Published
December 9, 2020

Adult community education classes in Waterville go remote because of COVID-19 case

The entire wing of Mid-Maine Regional Adult Community Education at Waterville Senior High School closed Wednesday until Jan. 4, while Clinton Elementary School reported a positive case of COVID-19, the seventh in Maine School Administrative District 49.
Published
December 7, 2020

Neighbors of police firing range air concerns to Waterville Planning Board

The city is developing a police firearms training range at 970 West River Road that was approved by the City Council, and now the Planning Board must review it under the city’s site plan review ordinance.
Published
December 7, 2020

Colby’s Dare Northward campaign surpasses $563 million toward $750 million goal

Funds transform students’ experience and connections with the community with 22,000 donors chipping in.
Published
December 7, 2020

Waterville fire caused by improper installation of wood stove

The fire at 37 Carey Lane Thursday in the city’s South End started in a barn or garage where a wood stove had been improperly installed.
Published
December 6, 2020

Waterville Planning Board to consider police firing range, marijuana facility

The Planning Board is expected to consider final plans Monday for a marijuana growing operation and a police firing range.
Published
December 6, 2020

Nor’easter blankets central Maine in wet, heavy snow

Snow totals were less than expected in Kennebec, Somerset and Franklin counties, according to the National Weather Service in Gray.
Published
December 5, 2020

As nor’easter approaches, people batten down the hatches and get ready to ride it out

Twelve to 18 inches of snow are expected in the Waterville area and into Somerset, Franklin and Kennebec counties, while 12 to 15 inches are expected in the rest of Kennebec County.
Published
December 4, 2020

Amy Calder: The ghosts of Christmases past

Memories of Christmas Eve celebrations at her parents’ home are as vivid as if they occurred yesterday, Amy Calder writes.
Published
December 4, 2020

Waterville residents complain about wreckers in residential neighborhood

Jessica Laliberte and her mother have complained to the city about noise on High Street from wreckers driven by tenants of an apartment building on the street who are on-call employees of a Winslow wrecker service.