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.

Latest

Published
May 13, 2016

Waterville Planning Board to discuss medical marijuana-related operations

City Solicitor Bill Lee will advise the board Monday about legal issues related to restricting such businesses.
Published
May 11, 2016

Oakland councilors terminate lease of Old School House, vote to keep it

Also, RSU 18 residents will vote on a proposed $34.6 million school budget Thursday night at a districtwide meeting.
Published
May 10, 2016

Waterville’s $40,000 annual funding for Waterville Main Street at issue

Businesses urged councilors on Tusday to continue funding the downtown organization.
Published
May 9, 2016

Two-way traffic on Main Street, diagonal parking topics of discussion at Waterville meeting

Downtown traffic study representatives give update on findings.
Published
May 9, 2016

New Dunkin’ Donuts to be built on Bay Street in Winslow

The coffee and doughnut shop at 9 Bay St. will relocate to 50 Bay St., and the building will also house a retail shop with a tenant to be determined later.
Published
May 6, 2016

Waterville police, Alfond Youth Center team up to slow traffic

Busy North Street is about to get busier as the weather gets warmer, and officials hope the awareness effort will help keep the area safe.
Published
May 5, 2016

Waterville Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey to be Cumberland police chief

Rumsey, who has been with the Waterville Police Department for 21 years, will leave in June for the southern Maine position.
Published
May 5, 2016

Waterville truck accident backs up I-95 traffic for hours

A tractor-trailer jackknifed Thursday morning on the Kennedy Memorial Drive overpass at exit 127, snarling northbound traffic from late morning into the afternoon.
Published
May 4, 2016

Waterville council backs city’s quest for longer development tax break period

The tax increment financing district is set up for 20 years, and city officials want the state to extend it to 30 years.
Published
May 4, 2016

Colby College solar project to be among biggest in state

The 5,505-panel, 1.9-megawatt installation eclipses the state’s current largest, at Bowdoin College, and will cover about 16 percent of the Waterville college’s energy needs.