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
March 4, 2019

Amy Calder: When power’s out, the mind wanders

An outage during the workday raises fears of a time when everything could stand still, when we are crippled by the fallout of our own intelligence, Amy Calder writes.
Published
March 1, 2019

70 people turn out for Waterville opioid forum

Lisa Hallee tells crowd of her nephew, who lost his battle with addiction in November.
Published
February 28, 2019

Mercer voters to consider proposed $463,165 budget

Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting will be asked to spend $30,000 to repair the first three-quarters of a mile of West Sandy River Road with shim, gravel and grading.
Published
February 28, 2019

Cambridge, Embden, New Portland and St. Albans hold Town Meetings

Area communities provide results of their annual Town Meetings.
Published
February 28, 2019

Cambridge voters to consider withdrawing from school district

Voters at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting also will consider a $353,315 budget and spending $38,000 from surplus for a salt and sand pad on Route 150.
Published
February 27, 2019

Cornville voters approve a budget of just over $500,000

About 30 people turned out Saturday for the annual town meeting at the town hall where they also voted to increase town officer salaries by 2.8 percent.
Published
February 27, 2019

New Portland voters to consider $752,000 budget at annual meeting

Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting also will decide whether to use up to $50,000 from surplus for a salt and sand shed project in case the project total exceeds $270,000.
Published
February 27, 2019

Solon voters to consider proposed $878,000 budget at Town Meeting

Voters at Town Meeting on Saturday also will consider increasing the clerk/tax collector’s salary to keep the Town Office open four days a week.
Published
February 26, 2019

Embden voters to consider approving funds for future paving projects

Residents also will consider approving a 3 percent cost of living increase for town employees at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting.
Published
February 26, 2019

Cornville voters to consider $500,000 budget on Saturday

Voters will go to the polls from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, at the town hall to elect a selectman and road commissioner.