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
November 14, 2019

Waterville gearing up for Parade of Lights, Kringleville

The annual holiday parade and opening of Kringleville, the mini Santa’s village, will kick off Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving, with Santa lighting the giant evergreen tree in its new location at Head of Falls after the parade.
Published
November 12, 2019

Brown House Commons apartments unveiled in Waterville

The former Goudreau’s Retirement Inn on College Avenue is being transformed into 27 apartment units, 80% of which are for those 55 and older.
Published
November 10, 2019

Amy Calder: At 96, U.S. Navy veteran Clara Gilbert reflects

Gilbert, of Skowhegan, served in the Bureau of Navy Personnel in Arlington, Virginia, from 1943 to 1945.
Published
November 7, 2019

Waterville seeks three appointees to Charter Commission

Anyone interested in serving on the city’s Charter Commission is asked to send a letter of interest to the city clerk by Nov. 27, according to City Solicitor William A. Lee III, who said the council will appoint three new members on Dec. 3.
Published
November 7, 2019

Couple charged in Madison drug bust scheduled for court

Timmy Smith was arrested Wednesday and his wife, Danielle Smith, was summoned, after officials from the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office searched their home and seized fentanyl, according to Sheriff Dale Lancaster.
Published
November 6, 2019

Waterville council postpones voting on ambulance issue

Councilors vote to postpone deciding whether to override Mayor Nick Isgro’s veto of a vote to buy two used ambulances for $131,000 until Nov. 19.
Published
November 6, 2019

Police help FBI search house, vehicles at Waterville property

Waterville police and Waldo County Sheriff officers were at a house on Elmwood Avenue Wednesday morning, assisting federal officers in a search of a home and vehicles parked in the driveway.
Published
November 5, 2019

Waterville voters elect three new councilors, reelect school board member

Newcomers Flavia M. Oliveira, Claude R. Francke and Richard Andrew Foss were elected to the City Council and Hillary Koch defeated Mayor Nick Isgro for a seat on the Charter Commission.
Published
November 4, 2019

Music and musical theater: Balm to the soul

There’s nothing like the thrill of waiting for the curtain to rise on a good musical, or hearing the first notes of a live symphony orchestra, and both are available right in Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
Published
November 3, 2019

Waterville council reassessing decision to buy ambulances

Mayor Nick Isgro has issued a memo to councilors asking them to postpone voting on the override to allow more time for vetting of a plan for the city to develop its own patient transport ambulance service.