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
May 1, 2021

Waterville prepares for students to attend summer ‘camps’

The Waterville Board of Education heard from school principals last week about plans for summer activities to help make up for academic and social-emotional loss students experienced during a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic.
Published
May 1, 2021

Road project to start Monday on I-95 in Palmyra and extend 13 miles

The state Department of Transportation announced that the $6.79 million project will include paving, bridge and guardrail work.
Published
May 1, 2021

Jorgensen’s Café moving up the street after 3 decades in downtown Waterville

Jorgensen’s owner Theresa Dunn says the new space, the former Me Lon Togo Bistro, features a dining room with lots of windows and natural light and a wraparound porch for outdoor dining.
Published
April 30, 2021

Friends recall Waterville’s first woman mayor, Ann ‘Nancy’ Hill

Hill, who died earlier in April, was the city’s first female mayor, having been elected in 1981 after having previously served two terms as a city councilor.
Published
April 30, 2021

Amy Calder: Her whole life ahead of her

Meghan Linehan, 26, a reader, writer, lover of horror, Gothic horror and the RiverWalk at Head of Falls in Waterville, is an engaging conversationalist, Amy Calder writes.
Published
April 28, 2021

Prospective buyer of Hampden recycling and waste-to-energy plant details plans

Robert Van Naarden, owner of Delta Thermo Energy Inc., said in a virtual meeting Wednesday in response to public questions that Coastal Maine Resources will not burn anything at the facility, including sewage sludge, and is not even licensed to take sewage sludge.
Published
April 27, 2021

Proposed Waterville budget includes plans to create 7 positions to keep up with city’s development

The City Council, mayor and city manager also discussed a plan to use TIF funds, bonds to address city needs over time and keep mill rate flat.
Published
April 26, 2021

Body recovered at Benton Falls Dam; foul play not cited

Police were called Monday night to the dam on the Sebasticook River.
Published
April 26, 2021

After controversy, Waterville Board of Education approves recent administrative transfers

Board approves policies governing the recruiting and hiring of administrative staff and directors, and policy on administrative procedures for recruiting and hiring.
Published
April 23, 2021

Waterville board to consider transferring high school assistant principal to Mitchell school principal spot

School principals also will update the Waterville Board of Education on Monday about plans for “summer camps,” to be held for all interested students to address social-emotional needs that may not have been filled this school year because of the coronavirus pandemic.