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 11, 2017

Benton voters approve $15,000 less than requested for health insurance for Town Office staff

The meeting moderator called for order several times, insisting that residents stop debating among themselves.
Published
March 9, 2017

‘North Pond Hermit’ book author tells Waterville crowd Knight was intelligent, funny

Writer Michael Finkel, who had corresponded with Christopher Knight through letters and visited him in jail, spoke to a crowd at the Waterville Opera House Thursday about the man who lived alone in the Rome woods for 27 years.
Published
March 8, 2017

Waterville’s new parking committee holds inaugural meeting

Helping to develop a parking management strategy for downtown is at the top of its list of goals.
Published
March 7, 2017

$25 million Colby housing complex gets final go-ahead

The Waterville City Council took a final vote Tuesday to approve TIF district for the building, which is expected to have retail space on the ground floor.
Published
March 6, 2017

Waterville board approves site plan for $25 million Colby building

City Council to take final votes on tax program for project Tuesday
Published
March 6, 2017

Waterville Board of Education to host special budget meeting Wednesday

Waterville Board of Education members will discuss the school budget and have a first look at proposed spending plans for several school departments for the 2017-18 school year.
Published
March 4, 2017

Colby College residential complex in downtown Waterville set for final votes

A planned $25 million residential complex for Colby College on the northeast tip of The Concourse downtown is under consideration for local approvals in the coming week, clearing the way for construction to start.
Published
March 4, 2017

Benton voters to consider $625,000 budget at Town Meeting

A request to provide health insurance for three office staff members is also on the meeting warrant that will be considered Saturday.
Published
March 2, 2017

Waterville school officials to study feasibility of closing Albert S. Hall School

Superintendent Eric Haley is citing rising costs, declining enrollments and scarcity of school funding as reasons for studying the closure of the city school serving fourth- and fifth-graders.
Published
February 28, 2017

Waterville welcomes new finance director, says goodbye to longtime IT director

City Hall is adding new Finance Director Heather Rowden, bidding farewell to Information Technology Director John Grant and expecting to hire Grant’s replacement soon.