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
November 10, 2023

Waterville church faces backlash over plan to raze adjacent apartment buildings

First Church of Waterville, formerly known as the First Baptist Church, bought two apartment buildings and plans to tear them down to expand parking and build a handicapped accessible entrance to the back of the church.
Published
November 10, 2023

Reporting Aside: Many became equine experts following column on horse in Waterville

An innocuous recent column on lessons to be learned from the Amish way of life, which ran along with a photo of a horse munching on hay at Home Depot, generated a flurry of opinions from readers on the condition of the horse, Amy Calder writes.
Published
November 8, 2023

Waterville City Council adopts winter plan to help homeless

Councilors on Wednesday postponed indefinitely a proposal to buy yurts to house homeless people now living in tents on city property near the Kennebec River.
Published
November 8, 2023

Alfond Center in Waterville to host its annual community dinner

The Alfond Youth & Community Center on North Street is expected to have up to 1,000 people attend the 99th annual Holiday Community Dinner on Thursday.
Published
November 8, 2023

Election updates: Winners of central Maine municipal races

Incumbents in some communities, including Waterville and Oakland, held onto their seats Tuesday, but others did not fare as well.
Published
November 7, 2023

Morris defeats Boulerice in Waterville mayoral race

Michael J. Morris, a Democrat who represents Ward 5 on the City Council, received 1,834 votes to Matthew S. Boulerice’s 1,209, according to results deemed official Wednesday.
Published
November 6, 2023

Waterville City Council to consider ditching yurt idea, seeking longer-term solutions for the homeless

Mayor Jay Coelho is withdrawing his request to spend up to $10,000 to install yurts on the riverfront, instead asking the city to seek solutions that include an emergency warming shelter and ramped-up outreach to the homeless encampment at Head of Falls.
Published
November 6, 2023

Two residents displaced when early morning fire damages Waterville home

The fire appears to have started Monday in the attic of the single-family home at 45 Drummond Ave., according to officials.
Published
November 5, 2023

Parade, Kringleville, lighting events to kick off holidays in Waterville, Winslow

The Children’s Discovery Museum of Central Maine has announced the holiday activity lineup, which includes visits with Santa Claus at Kringleville at Castonguay Square in downtown Waterville, beginning the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Published
November 3, 2023

Reporting Aside: Waterville business owner takes a sweet approach to her work

Danielle Doyon, who teaches baking classes to both children and adults, learned to love sweets while growing up in Fairfield near Hillman’s Bakery where she would stop to buy a Bismarck and coconut macaroon.