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
April 5, 2020

Another turn lane proposed from upper Main Street onto Waterville Commons Drive

The City Council on Tuesday will consider approving an agreement between the city and state to add another left-turn lane from Main Street to Waterville Commons Drive.
Published
April 3, 2020

Waterville man charged with threatening people with a firearm

Abdulrashid Bilal, 23, of Waterville, was arrested early Friday after allegedly threatening three people in a home with a firearm, believing one owed him money, according to police.
Published
April 3, 2020

Amy Calder: Finding the silver linings during a pandemic

As terrible as the coronavirus pandemic is, there are some good things happening in our changed world, Amy Calder writes.
Published
April 3, 2020

Waterville credit union gets ‘creative’ to serve members during pandemic

New Dimensions Federal Credit Union on Friday was busy all day, with vehicles lined up to use two outside ATMs and the drive-up window as CEO Ryan Poulin walked to cars to chat with members.
Published
April 3, 2020

Waterville police looking for suspect in stabbing incident

Chad Andrews, 39, allegedly stabbed a man early Friday in the back of the head and fled a Silver Street apartment building before police could search it.
Published
April 1, 2020

Legally blind Oakland man, wife face eviction during coronavirus pandemic

Doug Handy, 58, and his wife, Evelyn, 60, have lived in their mobile home 11 years and got an eviction notice March 25 saying they need to move out by April 25.
Published
April 1, 2020

Horse dies after falling in old well in Harmony

A horse stepped on a cesspool cover off Brown Road in Harmony Tuesday and went into about 8 feet of water but died before it could be rescued.
Published
March 31, 2020

Waterville council votes to suspend plastic bag ordinance

Councilors also got an update from City Manager Michael Roy about how the coronavirus situation is likely to affect the proposed 2020-21 municipal budget.
Published
March 31, 2020

MaineGeneral announces first coronavirus-related death at Augusta hospital

Meanwhile, of 4,500 employees in the MaineGeneral Health system, about 140 are expected to be working from home, once software is set up for them to do so.
Published
March 30, 2020

City budget review, bag ban suspension on Waterville agenda

The Waterville City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday to review an updated preliminary city budget whose numbers look a lot different than they did two weeks ago because of changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.