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
May 12, 2020

Payne to resign from Waterville school board, but will remain on charter commission

Julian Payne, a member of both the Waterville Board of Education and Waterville Charter Commission, has bought a home in Cornville and plans to resign from the school board in two weeks but stay on the Charter Commission.
Published
May 12, 2020

Children’s Discovery Museum to close Augusta location, focus on Waterville

The museum, which offers exhibits and activities to ignite the curiosity of children and celebrate learning through play, plans to buy the First Congregational United Church of Christ at 7 Eustis Parkway in Waterville.
Published
May 11, 2020

Some retailers in Waterville area open Monday, others are making preparations

Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday that retailers could open to in-store customers if stores followed strict guidelines.
Published
May 11, 2020

Waterville mayor, councilor face opposition to sending letter to Mills

At least two councilors say they will not sign a letter Mayor Nick Isgro and Councilor Rick Foss, R-Ward 5, want to send to Gov. Mills, offering to help determine how to safely open more businesses.
Published
May 11, 2020

Four arrested, suspect at large after motorcycle chase in Canaan, Pittsfield

Deputies from the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office and a wrecker driver were allegedly punched by family members of a motorcyclist who led a deputy sheriff on a high-speed chase Sunday night through Canaan and Pittsfield.
Published
May 8, 2020

Amy Calder: Students spend emotional last moments before leaving school for good

Fifth graders, teachers get a last look at each other at the Albert S. Hall School in Waterville as students pick up their belongings and move on to the junior high next year.
Published
May 7, 2020

Hartland residents fear impact of tannery’s closure

Diminishing demand for leather products during the coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty about reinvigorating that demand led Tasman Leather Group to decide to close the tannery this summer, putting 115 people out of work.
Published
May 6, 2020

Skowhegan, Norridgewock men charged in recent heroin busts

Ronald Bubier, 32, of Skowhegan, and Jarrod Russell, 37, of Norridgewock, were arrested and charged in separate incidents over the last two weeks.
Published
May 6, 2020

Longtime Skowhegan police officer’s home heavily damaged by fire

The fire reported at 7 Dinsmore St. in Skowhegan early Wednesday damaged about half of the duplex where police Officer Joel Cummings, his wife Michelle, Michelle’s sister, Melanie Alexander, and her daughter, Alexis, lived.
Published
May 5, 2020

Waterville City Council approves emergency housing agreement with Thomas College

The agreement allows emergency workers, including police officers and firefighters, to live in Thomas College dormitory rooms if they are healthy but were exposed — or fear they were exposed — to the coronavirus.