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 3, 2023

Madison man serving 30 days for violation of privacy in cellphone incident

Eric Dore, 44, is serving the sentence in Somerset County Jail after authorities say he took an inappropriate photo of a woman without her knowledge last summer.
Published
March 3, 2023

Reporting Aside: As China woman confronts fatal diagnosis, she hopes for a final wish

Juli Brooks Settlemire, who’s receiving hospice care, has inspired many in community theater in central Maine and wants to find a home for the Waterville-based Aqua City Actors Theatre, Amy Calder writes.
Published
March 2, 2023

Man convicted in previous death pleads guilty in 1987 killing of Janet Brochu of Winslow

Gerald Goodale, 63, who’s already serving a 75-year term, entered his plea Thursday in a Skowhegan courtroom and was sentenced to 32 years.
Published
March 1, 2023

Body of Clinton man found in SUV discovered upside down in water

Gene Rose, 66, was found Tuesday in the vehicle that was overturned in about 4 feet of water off Hill Road in Clinton.
Published
February 27, 2023

Waterville committee to interview 7 candidates for school district superintendent

The Waterville Board of Education on Monday got an update on a search for a new superintendent to succeed Eric Haley, who has said he hopes to retire this year.
Published
February 24, 2023

Reporting Aside: Winslow food pantry is ‘uplifting spirits and souls’

As food prices increase and more and more people can’t afford to buy their own food, let alone travel to a store, the Winslow Community Cupboard brings it to their neighborhoods, Amy Calder writes.
Published
February 22, 2023

Police: Three face charges in 2022 armed home invasion in Bingham

Two men and a woman are accused in home invasion May 29 on Main Street, police said.
Published
February 22, 2023

Public can weigh in on Waterville city manager search

A new city manager is expected to be named by the first week in May and that person would start the job 30 to 45 days after that.
Published
February 21, 2023

Waterville City Council sends rectory rezoning request back to Planning Board

Councilors said they want to hear an explanation from the Planning Board as to why property at 74 Pleasant St. should be rezoned from residential to commercial, a change that would allow Ware-Butler Building Supply to put business offices in the building.
Published
February 21, 2023

Waterville’s Inland Hospital to partner on ‘immersive learning’ center that simulates health care conditions

Purdue Global School of Nursing is partnering with Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville to build the innovative learning center next to the hospital.