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 16, 2023

Reporting Aside: Oakland man extends kindness to students from afar

Gil Roy has hosted more than two-dozen foreign exchange students from around the world in the last 14 years and has two more coming this summer, Amy Calder writes.
Published
June 15, 2023

Massachusetts man arrested on charge of aggravated attempted murder in Waterville

Irineu Goncalves, 34, faces several charges after police found him strangling a woman behind a hotel on Main Street, according to officials..
Published
June 13, 2023

Planning Board hears more details about downtown Waterville housing proposal

Kennebec Realty Partners told the board Tuesday that two long-vacant buildings across from the Colby College-owned Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons could have 21 studio apartments between them.
Published
June 13, 2023

Albion man pleads guilty to ‘straw purchase’ involving convicted felon in federal firearms case

Charles Viles, 31, tried to buy firearms for a convicted felon in Palmyra and knowingly made false statements to to a licensed firearms dealer, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Bangor.
Published
June 12, 2023

Interim Waterville police Chief Bonney named chief

Bill Bonney, who has been with the city’s Police Department for more than 25 years, has been serving as interim police chief since Joseph Massey retired in December.
Published
June 12, 2023

State Senate action means Waterville likely to again become regional dispatch center

Maine lawmakers approved a measure Monday allowing the creation in the state of another regional emergency communications center, which could benefit 16 Kennebec County communities, many of which were weeks away from losing dispatching services.
Published
June 12, 2023

Waterville Planning Board to consider downtown housing proposal

The DePre family is proposing to build 21 apartments at 155 and 165 Main St., across the street from the Colby College-owned Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons.
Published
June 11, 2023

Mount View High School graduation ceremony gets philosophical

The 67 seniors walked away with a question to ponder, courtesy of their principal: ‘Who are you?’
Published
June 10, 2023

Woofstock brings food, friends, music — oh, and dogs

About 35 people ran or walked the 5K Woof Run Saturday in Waterville at the Woofstock festival to help raise funds for Humane Society Waterville Area.
Published
June 9, 2023

Reporting Aside: One man’s kind gesture has uplifting effect

Debra Brown’s opinion of people changed recently when Manny Price found her wallet in a Waterville parking lot, with a few hundred dollars inside, and took the time to return it to her, Amy Calder writes.