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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PublishedJanuary 1, 2023
Body recovered from North Pond in Smithfield after ATV breaks through ice
Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving his side-by-side UTV across the pond with his wife and two other adult passengers at about 1 a.m. Sunday when it broke through the ice, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2023
Skowhegan search turns up more illegal drugs, another gun
Police searched a vehicle late Saturday and early Sunday, seizing $10,700 in cash, 286 grams of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl and a handgun, in a case related to arrests and drug seizures Thursday and Friday.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2022
Police, school officials investigate racist graffiti painted on Waterville elementary school
Peter Hallen, assistant superintendent of Waterville Public Schools, said it is important to find those responsible for the graffiti, but having the schools and Waterville community address the issue is critical to spreading awareness and effecting change.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2022
Skowhegan police continue to investigate drug case
Five people were arrested and more than $9,000 worth of illegal drugs seized Friday in Skowhegan, according to police.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2022
Fairfield police investigate single-vehicle crash
Bobbie Jo Dumas, 51, of Skowhegan was treated and released from the hospital following the crash Friday on Norridgewock Road in Fairfield, according to police.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2022
Woman loses everything when fire destroys China home
The woman who lived at the mobile home at 49 Chadwick Way in the Weeks Mills area of China was uninsured, a fire official said Thursday.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2022
Waterville City Council votes to accept city manager’s resignation, pay him four months’ salary
Councilors held a special meeting Wednesday at which they approved paying Steve Daly and giving him a health insurance reimbursement in a lump sum.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2022
Waterville City Council to consider city manager’s resignation
The council is expected Wednesday to discuss appointing Assistant City Manager Bill Post as interim city manager until a search for a new manager is launched and a candidate hired to succeed Steve Daly, who resigned abruptly last week.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2022
Bowdoin man summoned after pickup truck hits Waterville apartment building
Police say the Dodge pickup was traveling at high speed Monday night on College Avenue when it left the road, snapped off a utility pole and crashed into the apartment building, causing what the building owner says is tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2022
It’s official: Paul J. Schupf Art Center opens to public
The opening of the $18 million center, which included a preview reception Friday and a “Joy to the Ville” opening day event on Saturday in Waterville, drew a supportive crowd despite a major snowstorm across central Maine.
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Affordable housing complex for older adults in Augusta to begin leasing in February
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Three awards cap off annual business celebration at the Kenney Awards
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Jury finds Gardiner man guilty of murder in shooting, machete attack
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Suspect in Winslow stabbing was retaliating against victim, police say
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Project planned for downtown Waterville would provide more than 60 housing units