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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PublishedApril 2, 2021
Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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PublishedApril 2, 2021
Amy Calder: With Easter comes hope
Easter in the 1950s and ’60s meant donning pastel-colored dresses, patent leather shoes and bonnets and listening to mysterious sermons in church, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedApril 1, 2021
Waterville plans to accommodate businesses, building owners during construction
An $11.2 million downtown revitalization project, to include changing the traffic pattern on Main and Front streets, is occurring simultaneously with construction of the $18 million Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2021
Central Maine faithful celebrating holy days in-person and virtually amid pandemic
Places of worship in the Augusta and Waterville areas are using a combination of virtual and in-person gatherings as key holy celebrations get underway a year into the coronavirus pandemic.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Waterville woman, killed when tree branch hit car, was executive chef, engaged to be married
Rochelle Hager, 31, died Monday when a large pine tree branch fell onto her car during strong winds, as she drove on Knowlton Corner Road in Farmington.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2021
Waterville school panel to review hiring policy in wake of administrative transfer debate
The Waterville Board of Education’s policy committee will meet Thursday to discuss the schools’ administrative hiring policy, after some members objected to Superintendent Eric Haley’s making transfers without receiving approval.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2021
Work to start Monday on new $18 million Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville
The Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street plans to include movie cinemas, a gallery and studio rooms, a gathering space and cafe and a box office.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
Amy Calder: Helping to beautify the world
Claire Prontnicki, 64, of Waterville does her part by collecting trash along the streets, volunteering at the library and training to be a hospice volunteer.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
Police: Man shot by officer after crash investigation in Norridgewock
Police have revealed the identities of the man who was shot and the Somerset County deputy who shot him.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2021
Sale of Hampden trash, recycling plant expected in May or June
The Municipal Review Committee, which represents 115 Maine municipalities and their collective solid waste disposal interests, voted Thursday to extend the sale deadline which was originally March 31.
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