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
March 5, 2021

Hannaford pharmacies in central Maine have begun vaccinating

Hannaford stores at Elm Plaza in Waterville, Cony Circle in Augusta, Farmington, Jay, Skowhegan and Winthrop received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and began vaccinating people this week.
Published
March 5, 2021

Northern Light Inland Hospital expands mass vaccination site in Fairfield

The Northern Light Inland Hospital clinic at Kennebec Valley Community College on Western Avenue in Fairfield has been open since Jan. 26, doing 300 to 400 doses per week, but it is expanding to vaccinate about 1,000 people per day on certain days starting Saturday.
Published
March 5, 2021

Amy Calder: ‘Brother, can you spare a …?’

Back in the 1950s and ’60s you could buy a lot more for a dime than you can now, Amy Calder writes.
Published
March 4, 2021

Fairfield woman to serve 32 months for conspiracy to distribute drugs

Stephanie Pelletier, 29, will serve three years of supervised release after her prison sentence.
Published
March 4, 2021

Two arrested in Waterville on drug trafficking charges

Police on Wednesday stopped a vehicle on Elm Street and the occupant fled, leading officers on a foot chase and tossing an item later found to be drugs on the roof of a building before he was arrested.
Published
March 3, 2021

Oakland woman impaled by tree branch in ‘fair’ condition

David and Theresa Roy were traveling on Pond Road in Sidney Tuesday when a tree fell on their vehicle in high winds and a branch came through the car and impaled Theresa Roy, who is 79.
Published
March 2, 2021

Waterville council approves more than $140,000 in contracts for library work

Councilors on Tuesday voted to appoint a panel to explore temporary and permanent locations for council meetings.
Published
March 1, 2021

Waterville announces schedule for $11.2 million downtown project

Work on the revitalization project to change traffic to two-way on Main and Front streets and improve intersections and sidewalks will kick off March 15.
Published
March 1, 2021

Waterville Council to consider library restoration work contracts

The council also is expected to consider forming a committee to explore temporary and permanent locations for City Council meetings.
Published
February 26, 2021

Amy Calder: Seeking answers to her daughter’s last days from 3,000 miles away

Judy Schwartz of California was notified by police in January that her daughter, who had been missing for a year, was found dead in Waterville, Maine, sending Schwartz on a mission to find out everything she could about her daughter’s last year of life.