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
June 4, 2020

March planned Sunday in downtown Waterville for Minneapolis black man killed by police

Former Waterville City Councilor Phil Bofia, a current charter commission member, is organizing a solidarity march that will end at Castonguay Square downtown.
Published
June 4, 2020

Skowhegan firefighters extinguish fires in scrap metal yard

The Skowhegan Fire Department on Wednesday also put out two other fires — a blaze that destroyed a rubbish truck and a fire that burned the exterior of an apartment building.
Published
June 2, 2020

Waterville council votes to add $1 million bond toward downtown transformation project

Councilors on Tuesday also voted to close part of Silver Street to allow three restaurants extra outdoor dining space and agreed not to open the municipal pool this season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published
June 2, 2020

Waterville City Hall reopens to public after 2-month-plus coronavirus closure

Waterville City Hall, closed to the public since March 15 because of the coronavirus pandemic, reopened officially and is open to the public from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Published
June 1, 2020

Waterville Planning Board delays vote on solar farm requests

The Waterville Planning Board lost its livestream link to its meeting Monday and decided to postpone voting on whether to recommend rezoning properties on County and Webb roads to allow for solar farms.
Published
June 1, 2020

Amy Calder: Making it work, during a pandemic

Erica Pelotte bought a restaurant business in downtown Waterville in August and had to close in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, but she has reopened and is working harder than ever to make the eatery successful.
Published
June 1, 2020

Waterville City Council to consider borrowing $1 million for downtown project

Councilors on Tuesday also will consider whether to keep the Alfond Municipal Pool closed this season due to the coronavirus pandemic, and closing part of Silver Street to allow for more outdoor dining downtown.
Published
May 29, 2020

Amy Calder: Acknowledging our human connection

If we don’t see ourselves as being connected during the coronavirus pandemic, we are doomed, Amy Calder writes.
Published
May 27, 2020

Some summer camps in Waterville area to open this summer

Most summer camps in the Waterville area plan to open this summer, following guidelines of the Maine Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, while others have decided not to open because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published
May 27, 2020

Waterville’s Bill Mitchell gets national magazine award

Mitchell, owner of GHM Agency in downtown Waterville, was chosen from among more than 35,000 independent insurance agencies around the country to receive the Rough Notes Community Service Award.