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
January 24, 2020

Amy Calder: Grocery shopping online reaps perks

Ordering groceries online through Hannaford To Go was a seamless process and convenient, Amy Calder writes.
Published
January 24, 2020

Waterville market worker had hepatitis A while preparing food sold to customers

The Maine Center for Disease Control and state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry are warning customers who may have purchased food from Joseph’s Market on Front Street from Dec. 27, 2019 to Jan. 9 this year that they may be at risk of being infected.
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January 22, 2020

Groups seek to boost Waterville area’s digital economy

The Central Maine Growth Council, an economic development organization, was one of 10 entities chosen to take part in a national technical assistance program that helps rural communities create digital economy jobs.
Published
January 21, 2020

Waterville City Council rejects sale of tower leases valued at $420,000

Councilors also waive foreclosure of municipal tax liens on 10 mobile homes.
Published
January 20, 2020

Confront injustice, Martin Luther King Jr. Day speaker tells Waterville audience

David Deas spoke to and performed for more than 100 people who turned out Monday for the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast at Spectrum Generation Muskie Center.
Published
January 20, 2020

Waterville council to consider selling fire station tower leases

A California company wants to buy two leases the city has with Verizon and T-Mobile for space on the city’s communication tower atop the fire station for 25 years for $420,000.
Published
January 19, 2020

Lawsuit alleges Fairfield auctioneer James D. Julia breached contract

James D. Julia, a former Fairfield auction house owner, denies allegations from a Pennsylvania company that bought his business for $7.2 million that Julia breached the contract by referring business to his sister’s auction company in violation of the agreement.
Published
January 17, 2020

Amy Calder: The wisdom of embracing change

Resisting changes in technology can leave a person in the dust, Amy Calder writes.
Published
January 16, 2020

Colby course explores community faith-based missions

Students in a new Colby College course volunteered with faith-based organizations, developed relationships with pastors and lay people, and wrote profiles about who they met.
Published
January 14, 2020

Waterville charter panel to probe the ward system, budget, mayor position

The Charter Commission voted Tuesday to form subcommittees to talk to elected officials, former commission members and other towns’ officials about their charters.