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 4, 2013
Politics makes budget math difficult for AOS 92
AOS 92 Superintendent Eric Haley says developing school budgets is proving difficult as the fate of its state funding remains up in the air.
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PublishedApril 4, 2013
Neighbors remember missing girl on her birthday
Neighbors and friends are remembering missing toddler Ayla Reynolds Thursday, what would have been her third birthday.
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PublishedApril 2, 2013
Waterville mayor renews call for sales, lodging tax hikes at budget meeting
Mayor Karen Heck, successor to former Waterville mayor and now Gov. Paul LePage, on Tuesday issued her oft-repeated message to state legislators during a joint meeting of the Board of Education and City Council: “Stop shifting costs to taxpayers.”
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PublishedApril 2, 2013
Waterville, Fairfield teens warned by police following graveyard brawl
Police this week warned about a dozen Waterville and Fairfield students for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass after fighting in a local cemetery.
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PublishedApril 1, 2013
Waterville school board approves $644K bite out of budget
The Waterville Board of Education on Monday voted 7–0 to cut $644,481 from the proposed 2013-14 school budget in what Superintendent Eric Haley says is one of the worst budget years he has ever seen.
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PublishedApril 1, 2013
Central Maine Growth Council boss touts Waterville business gains
A business incubator is opening in the downtown, the former Levine’s building is being developed and the city will learn soon if the airport area is designated a foreign trade zone, Darryl Sterling, executive director of the Central Maine Growth Council, told the Waterville Rotary Club Monday.
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PublishedApril 1, 2013
Waterville city council, school board to review budgets
Waterville City Council and the Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday to review a proposed municipal budget of $17.1 million and the proposed school budget of $20.3 million.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2013
Maine True Value franchise owner named chairman of national company
Brent Burger was elected chairman of True Value Company last month in Atlanta, after having served as a board member since 2007.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2013
‘Funny-tastic’ Big Sister has nurtured children in need for more than 20 years
Valerie King has been involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters for more than 20 years, starting out as a member of the board of directors and then becoming a big sister. Destinee Pearl is her third “little sister.”
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PublishedMarch 27, 2013
Schools offer counseling after child’s suicide
Counseling and support for students, parents and staff members is being offered in Regional School Unit 3 after the suicide of a sixth-grader from Troy.
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