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
April 29, 2020

Stage 1 reopenings of businesses, services in Central Maine will be cautious

Health care providers, car dealerships, hair salon owners and others weigh in on what it will mean to open as part of Gov. Mills’ four-stage plan.
Published
April 28, 2020

Waterville council debates request for police dispatcher, patrol officer positions

At a budget review meeting Tuesday night, the Waterville City Council considered a proposed $4.2 million police department budget which includes requests for a new dispatcher and a new patrol officer.
Published
April 27, 2020

Waterville Board of Education backs $25.7 million budget

The board must take a second vote to finalize the 2020-21 budget proposal. That vote might not be taken until after the City Council approves the municipal and school budgets.
Published
April 27, 2020

Central Maine municipalities still functioning as city, town offices remain closed to public

Employees in Waterville, Fairfield, Winslow and Skowhegan are finding tasks may take longer to accomplish, but they are getting things done while maintaining the safety recommendations.
Published
April 26, 2020

Waterville school board slated to discuss budget, online learning

The Waterville Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday and the public may view the meeting via a link on the schools’ website.
Published
April 24, 2020

Workers repair downtown Waterville water main break

Workers late Thursday repaired a “pretty significant” water main break on Appleton Street downtown and were filling in the excavation hole and cleaning up debris around it Friday.
Published
April 24, 2020

Amy Calder: Two friends retain their compassion during the pandemic

Emily Coates, 20, and Jessica Verrill, 42, were on a mission Wednesday to make a co-worker’s day a bit happier during a difficult time, Amy Calder writes.
Published
April 23, 2020

Water main break in Waterville floods downtown business basements

The water main break on Appleton Street occurred just after 4:30 p.m. and caused flooding to basements in businesses on The Concourse.
Published
April 23, 2020

Waterville Emergency Operations Center trims hours, but there to assist in pandemic

The center, set up to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, is made up of seven city officials who will work mostly from their regular offices but can return to the center at a moment’s notice, according to the center’s incident commander, Joseph Massey.
Published
April 22, 2020

Fire marshal calls Canaan fire ‘arson’

The fire reported at 2:40 a.m. Monday destroyed a vacant building which formerly was a restaurant and then pawn shop at the corner of Main Street and Oak Pond Road.