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
July 23, 2021

Amy Calder: They have a passion for feeding the hungry

The St. John Food Pantry in Winslow is desperate for a new space after having been housed in a church basement at 26 Monument St. in Winslow for more than 60 years.
Published
July 22, 2021

Thomas College won’t require students, faculty, staff to be vaccinated

The college said Thursday those who are not vaccinated must follow safety protocols, including wearing masks, at the Waterville campus.
Published
July 22, 2021

Waterville council approves $46.5 million budget, cuts tax rate by 26 cents

With the new Waterville tax rate of $25.50 per $1,000 worth of valuation, someone who owns a home valued at $100,000 will pay $26 less a year.
Published
July 21, 2021

Waterville councilors allocate $100,000 for browntail moth attack plan

The City Council on Tuesday added $100,000 to the proposed municipal budget for dealing with the browntail moth infestation after Councilor Thomas Klepach laid out a mitigation plan.
Published
July 21, 2021

Waterville mayor says he’s ‘extremely thankful,’ hasn’t decided yet whether to resign

At the end of Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, Mayor Jay Coelho thanked councilors and city officials and said he had not yet made a decision about whether to resign due to serious health issues.
Published
July 19, 2021

Waterville mayor discloses serious health issue, considers resigning from office

Mayor Jay Coelho wrote Monday in an email he spent a week in an intensive care unit after having been taken by a LifeFlight of Maine helicopter to the hospital to be treated for a heart condition.
Published
July 19, 2021

Waterville city councilor lays out plan for browntail moth mitigation

Councilor Thomas Klepach, D-Ward 3, says Waterville and Maine have not faced a browntail moth outbreak of the current magnitude in more than a century.
Published
July 19, 2021

Waterville City Council to consider final vote on proposed $46.5 million municipal, school budget

Councilors are also expected Tuesday to consider the first of two votes needed to accept a grant to buy an inflatable water and ice rescue boat and training mannequin for the Fire Department.
Published
July 16, 2021

Amy Calder: A short, but memorable life

Adrian Jacques of Skowhegan died last month at age 44 of Legionnaires’ Disease, but he also had battled Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disease and acute myeloid leukemia.
Published
July 15, 2021

Construction projects keep Colby College in Waterville busy this summer

Colby’s construction projects are underway this summer, some of which had been delayed due to the pandemic, vice president of planning at Colby said.