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
August 3, 2019

Fire, police officials continue to probe Skowhegan blaze

State and local investigators were at the scene of a fire Friday that burned two vehicles in a North Avenue driveway and spread to an adjacent house, injuring one person.
Published
August 3, 2019

Family of six displaced, two dogs dead in Cornville fire

A fire that apparently started in a barn and spread to a house on West Ridge Road Friday destroyed the barn and heavily damaged the house in which two canines died, according to fire official.
Published
August 2, 2019

Skowhegan police, fire officials probe vehicle, house fire

Skowhegan police and firefighters Friday afternoon responded to a vehicle fire that spread to a house on North Avenue and officials contacted the Office of State Fire Marshal to help determine the cause of the blaze.
Published
August 2, 2019

Waterville Planning Board, council to consider final plans for mill redevelopment

The Planning Board on Monday will review preliminary and final plans by North River Lockwood I LLC to develop 132 apartments at 6 and 8 Water St. as part of two phases of development.
Published
August 2, 2019

Man injured when SUV slams into back of parked flatbed truck in Winslow

The truck was stopped on the side of Augusta Road when a Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicle crashed into the left rear of the flatbed, smashing the passenger side of the SUV.
Published
July 30, 2019

Three-vehicle crash in Winslow sends four to hospital

A pickup truck slammed into the rear of another pickup, which then struck a Prius stopped at the traffic light at the intersection of U.S. Route 201 and China Road, according to Winslow police Chief Shawn O’Leary.
Published
July 29, 2019

Oakland police investigate high school, business burglaries

A lot of windows were discovered broken early Monday at Messalonskee High School, and the Early Bird Restaurant and Oakland House of Pizza were broken into as well, according to Deputy Chief Rick Stubbert of the Oakland police.
Published
July 22, 2019

Amy Calder: Saying two goodbyes, back-to-back

Amy Calder muses about an imminent trip to Vermont, where she will attend two celebrations of life.
Published
July 21, 2019

At Waterville’s Riverwalk park, police see uptick in complaints

Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey and Parks and Recreation Director Matt Skehan say they hope to discuss with people to how they can help make the park welcoming, clean and safe.
Published
July 17, 2019

‘Around the Sun,’ making regional premiere at MIFF, offers intelligent sort of love story

California writer Jonathan Kiefer and London director Oliver Krimpas bring their film set in a French chateau to the Maine International Film Festival, where it will have its East Coast and New England premiere.