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
February 4, 2019

No cause yet in Skowhegan apartment fire that sent one person to the hospital

State fire investigators planned to interview people Monday about the fire, which was reported at 11:31 a.m. Sunday at a 6-unit building at 386 Water St.
Published
February 4, 2019

Waterville council to consider accepting funds for parking enforcement, federal grant

Colby College has offered the city $10,000 to hire a person to enforce parking rules, and the council will consider increasing parking fine fees.
Published
February 3, 2019

Video: Team from central Maine takes second place in national snow sculpting contest

The Carvivores, a three-woman team, carved one day in wind chill that made the temperature seem like 55 below zero in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Published
February 3, 2019

Fire damages six-unit apartment building in Skowhegan

Two people jumped out of a first-floor window after the fire started, and one went to the hospital with burns, according to a fire official.
Published
February 3, 2019

Tractor trailer gets caught up on fire escape of building in downtown Waterville

Police and fire officials helped cut the truck free Saturday night and direct it out onto Main Street.
Published
February 2, 2019

Music students perform marathon to raise money for Waterville homeless shelter

About 50 children ages 4 to 17 from Pineland Suzuki School performed several hours Saturday at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Waterville.
Published
January 31, 2019

Waterville seeks partner for riverfront mixed-use development

The structure would be on 1.5 acres of city-owned property at Head of Falls off Front Street.
Published
January 30, 2019

Sustain Mid-Maine to move out of Waterville City Hall after mayor complains

Mayor Nick Isgro calls the environmental organization, which supports a plastic bag ban he opposes, a “special interest group.”
Published
January 29, 2019

Fire in paper machines and in roof at Huhtamaki paper products plant draws huge response

Dozens of firefighters from about 15 communities battled the blaze at the business, which straddles the Waterville-Fairfield town line.
Published
January 29, 2019

Waterville mayor wants environmental group out of City Hall

Sustain Mid-Maine Coalition has had a small corner of an office in City Hall for a few years at no charge, but Mayor Nick Isgro wants the city manager to give the nonprofit notice that the city no longer will allow that.