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
March 17, 2014

Aircraft repair company lease on Waterville council agenda

Black Bear Aviation proposes to repair and maintain aircraft at Robert LaFleur Municipal Airport.
Published
March 13, 2014

Harmony voters consider $25,200 for cemetery repair

Voters at Saturday’s Town Meeting will also consider a construction application requiring residents to notify town officials when they intend to build or upgrade structures.
Published
March 12, 2014

Mount Merici in Waterville to add 7th, 8th grades

The private Catholic school plans to add the grades over the next two years.
Published
March 10, 2014

Waterville police chief says safe neighborhoods begin with communication

At a meeting in Waterville Monday night, Chief Joseph Massey detailed how to report crime and urged residents to call police, even if they’re in doubt.
Published
March 8, 2014

Palmyra residents adopt $754,837 budget, nix yard sale ordinance

Voters rejected the yard sale measure by a show of hands after some criticized it for including a requirement to get a $2 permit two weeks in advance.
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March 6, 2014

Palmyra voters to consider yard sale ordinance

The Town Meeting proposal would regulate what can be sold at yard sales and how often they can occur.
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March 2, 2014

Renovations at MaineGeneral’s Thayer hospital in Waterville to finish by October

The $16 million project comes as the hospital is reconfigured into what officials call a one-stop shopping health center for outpatient care.
Published
March 2, 2014

Waterville police to meet with residents about reporting crime

The City Councilor set up two meetings after she got a flurry of calls from constituents who saw reportable things, but didn’t know how to report them.
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February 28, 2014

Thomaston man charged in Waterville bank robbery

Suspect David Alvarez had been in a minor traffic accident about an hour before the robbery, and a police officer said he recognized him in surveillance footage.
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February 26, 2014

Waterville woman gets back $1,500 she lost from pocketbook

A maintenance worker finds the money bag, turns it in and police track down its owner, Kennebec Savings Bank customer Cathy Landry — who had found and turned in $5,000 outside the same bank five years ago.