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.

Latest

Published
July 21, 2020

Waterville council takes first vote on proposed $44.2 million budget

The proposed municipal and school budget for 2020-21 would not increase the current tax rate of $25.76 per $1,000 worth of valuation.
Published
July 20, 2020

Waterville planning board gets first look at plans for a food specialty store

The Planning Board on Monday also voted 6-1 to approve a final plan for a marijuana cultivation facility at 46 Industrial Road.
Published
July 20, 2020

Waterville City Council to consider proposed $44.2 million municipal, school budget

Councilors on Tuesday night are also expected to consider a resolution urging businesses to encourage customers and employees to wear face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published
July 17, 2020

Amy Calder: ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’

Amy Calder remembers the extraordinary life of thespian Emily Rowden Fournier, who perished in a whitewater rafting accident.
Published
July 16, 2020

Waterville commission proposes changes to city charter

The charter commission expects to present its proposed changes Aug. 4 to the City Council. Ultimately, city voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve any changes.
Published
July 16, 2020

Girl Scout gets top award for garden at Waterville homeless shelter

Caitlyn Young, 18, receives Girls Scouts Gold Award for a raised-bed vegetable garden project she developed that will not only be used to help feed the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter guests, but also to teach them how to grow their own food.
Published
July 15, 2020

Morning Sentinel area decides: Election results for Town Meetings, school budgets, select boards

Voters dealt with town and school budgets, decided who would be running for state office in a couple of contests, and put their trust in people who were elected to school boards and selectmen’s panels.
Published
July 15, 2020

Flood in Winslow on Tuesday caused by heavy rain, stream overflow

During Tuesday’s heavy rain storm, a stream behind Cumberland Farms and McDonald’s restaurant off China Road overflowed, and flooded the area with water 3 feet deep in some places.
Published
July 15, 2020

Three arrested in Skowhegan drug bust, alligator confiscated

The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department arrests woman and two men and seizes about $12,000 worth of heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and a live, 2-foot-long alligator.
Published
July 14, 2020

Absentee ballots swell, voter turnout mostly light in central Maine

For Waterville, China, Fairfield, Norridgewock and Skowhegan, Tuesday’s primary election ran smoothly despite strict health and safety guidelines and longer ballots brought on by the coronavirus.