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
April 2, 2013

Waterville mayor renews call for sales, lodging tax hikes at budget meeting

Mayor Karen Heck, successor to former Waterville mayor and now Gov. Paul LePage, on Tuesday issued her oft-repeated message to state legislators during a joint meeting of the Board of Education and City Council: “Stop shifting costs to taxpayers.”
Published
April 2, 2013

Waterville, Fairfield teens warned by police following graveyard brawl

Police this week warned about a dozen Waterville and Fairfield students for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass after fighting in a local cemetery.
Published
April 1, 2013

Waterville school board approves $644K bite out of budget

The Waterville Board of Education on Monday voted 7–0 to cut $644,481 from the proposed 2013-14 school budget in what Superintendent Eric Haley says is one of the worst budget years he has ever seen.
Published
April 1, 2013

Central Maine Growth Council boss touts Waterville business gains

A business incubator is opening in the downtown, the former Levine’s building is being developed and the city will learn soon if the airport area is designated a foreign trade zone, Darryl Sterling, executive director of the Central Maine Growth Council, told the Waterville Rotary Club Monday.
Published
April 1, 2013

Waterville city council, school board to review budgets

Waterville City Council and the Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday to review a proposed municipal budget of $17.1 million and the proposed school budget of $20.3 million.
Published
March 31, 2013

Maine True Value franchise owner named chairman of national company

Brent Burger was elected chairman of True Value Company last month in Atlanta, after having served as a board member since 2007.
Published
March 31, 2013

‘Funny-tastic’ Big Sister has nurtured children in need for more than 20 years

Valerie King has been involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters for more than 20 years, starting out as a member of the board of directors and then becoming a big sister. Destinee Pearl is her third “little sister.”
Published
March 27, 2013

Schools offer counseling after child’s suicide

Counseling and support for students, parents and staff members is being offered in Regional School Unit 3 after the suicide of a sixth-grader from Troy.
Published
March 26, 2013

Waterville council takes first look at $17.1 million budget

Waterville city councilors on Tuesday started reviewing a proposed $17.1 million municipal budget for 2013-14 — a budget that represents a $874 decrease from the current budget.
Published
March 26, 2013

Clinton teen badly hurt in fire; mother asks for prayers

Clayton Buzzell, 18, of Clinton was listed in critical condition Tuesday at a Portland hospital after being injured in a fire over the weekend that destroyed the second floor of his family’s home.