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Amy Calder
Staff Writer
Amy Calder covers Waterville, including city government, for the Morning Sentinel and writes a column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears Sundays in 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, she holds a bachelors in English from University of Hartford and completed post-graduate work at the School of Education at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has received numerous of awards from the Maine Press Association and New England Associated Press News Executives Association and is author of the book, "Comfort is an Old Barn," a collection of curated columns published by Islandport Press. Calder lives in Waterville with her husband, Philip Norvish, a retired Sentinel reporter and editor.
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Interest in Waterville’s first murder renewed
Paranormal researchers investigation of 1847 murder bringing additional focus to city history, Pine Grove Cemetery
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Kennebec Valley Community College forum focuses on climate change
Mid-Maine Climate Adaptation Working Group panel says people must change the way they live
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Mathias resigns from Waterville City Council
Ward 6 councilor cites greater responsibilites at work for leaving after four years.
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Police say they won’t stop searching until they find missing Waterville child Ayla Reynolds
A morning-long search in Oakland Wednesday of woods, a field and pond turned up no clues to what happened to the child reported missing nearly two years ago.
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Waterville voters to consider charter changes
Nov. 5 election question asks city residents if they want to discontinue warden and ward clerk elections and allow the city clerk to appoint people to those positions.
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Waterville couple not campaigning against each other in warden race
David and Jennifer Johnson, husband and wife, say they don’t mind which one of them wins in the Nov. 5 election
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Three candidates vie for two seats on Kennebec Water District Board
Incumbent Jeff A. Earickson, J. Michael Talbot and newcomer Richard J. Staples are vying for two three-year terms on the Kennebec Water District Board of Trustees in the Nov. 5 election.
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Waterville cemetery chapel discovery offers glimpse of past, potential for future
A recently discovered time capsule in Waterville’s Pine Grove Cemetery Chapel calls attention to both the disrepair and the historic nature of the city-owned building in which it was found.
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Waterville, Winslow councils support forming natural gas advisory panel
The panel will explore whether it makes sense for area municipalities to form a municipal natural gas district as Summit Natural Gas of Maine pipeline installation continues.