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
October 30, 2013

Mathias resigns from Waterville City Council

Ward 6 councilor cites greater responsibilites at work for leaving after four years.
Published
October 23, 2013

Police say they won’t stop searching until they find missing Waterville child Ayla Reynolds

A morning-long search in Oakland Wednesday of woods, a field and pond turned up no clues to what happened to the child reported missing nearly two years ago.
Published
October 22, 2013

Waterville voters to consider charter changes

Nov. 5 election question asks city residents if they want to discontinue warden and ward clerk elections and allow the city clerk to appoint people to those positions.
Published
October 22, 2013

Waterville couple not campaigning against each other in warden race

David and Jennifer Johnson, husband and wife, say they don’t mind which one of them wins in the Nov. 5 election
Published
October 21, 2013

Three candidates vie for two seats on Kennebec Water District Board

Incumbent Jeff A. Earickson, J. Michael Talbot and newcomer Richard J. Staples are vying for two three-year terms on the Kennebec Water District Board of Trustees in the Nov. 5 election.
Published
October 21, 2013

Waterville cemetery chapel discovery offers glimpse of past, potential for future

A recently discovered time capsule in Waterville’s Pine Grove Cemetery Chapel calls attention to both the disrepair and the historic nature of the city-owned building in which it was found.
Published
October 16, 2013

Waterville, Winslow councils support forming natural gas advisory panel

The panel will explore whether it makes sense for area municipalities to form a municipal natural gas district as Summit Natural Gas of Maine pipeline installation continues.
Published
October 14, 2013

Kringleville moving into downtown Waterville storefront

Instead of Santa and Mrs. Claus greeting children in their miniature North Pole village house in Castonguay Square, they will be inside the storefront window of the REM forum on Main Street downtown.
Published
October 14, 2013

Volunteers playing critical role in feeding kids at Waterville school

A new group of community volunteers is working to provide poor children with clothing and open a food pantry in the George J. Mitchell School, which will join a growing number in Maine that sends food home.
Published
October 14, 2013

Police: Woman in Monday crash in Unity Township killed after dog distracted on-coming driver

Motorist Donna Jackson, 59, of Waterville and Knox, was pronounced dead at the scene after an oncoming pickup truck crossed the center line, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office said.