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
June 7, 2019

Waterville educator urges seniors to ‘build a good foundation’

Ron Webber, who taught and coached for more than 40 years in the district and continues to teach as a substitute, also asked seniors to use meaningful words such as “I like what you do” with those they care about.
Published
June 4, 2019

Waterville businesses, residents to weigh in on changes to downtown traffic pattern

A state official who will oversee plans to change traffic from one-way to two-way downtown told the City Council on Tuesday that a public forum will be held this month so people can see draft plans.
Published
June 3, 2019

Colby announces $26 million hotel project to start next month

The Lockwood Hotel, with 53 rooms, a restaurant, bar and limestone facade to reflect the city’s past, is expected to open in the fall of 2020.
Published
June 3, 2019

Waterville council to hear update on $7.37 million BUILD grant

The council Tuesday night also will consider a request to rezone 129 Silver St. to allow for Golden Pond Wealth Management to expand.
Published
June 3, 2019

Amy Calder: ‘A little bit of friendship’

Amy Calder reflects on the $75,000 gift actor Ed Harris contributed toward a future art and film center in downtown Waterville.
Published
May 28, 2019

Waterville council eyes proposed $3.6 million public works budget

The proposed 2.9% increase is reflected mostly in wages and benefits.
Published
May 27, 2019

Decorated Army vet to Skowhegan crowd: ‘We are able to be here today largely thanks to those who are not’

Derek DeFelice, a Skowhegan business owner and Oakland resident, was the Memorial Day speaker Monday after Skowhegan’s parade, in which he also served as parade marshal.
Published
May 27, 2019

Morning Sentinel May 27 police log

Waterville area police reports for Monday, May 27, 2019.
Published
May 27, 2019

Skowhegan man remains ‘stable’ with multiple stab wounds to chest

Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam said a 17-year-old was charged Sunday with elevated aggravated assault in the stabbing, which occurred at the 29-year-old victim’s home on Pine Street.
Published
May 27, 2019

Amy Calder: ‘On Memorial Day, we remember’

An Interstate 95 bridge over Main Street in Waterville is being named for Army Specialist Wade A. Slack, a Waterville man who died in 2010 while serving his country in Afghanistan.