DEXTER — U.S. Army Capt. Jay Brainard was mourned, honored and buried Saturday, three weeks after the helicopter he was piloting crashed while on patrol in Afghanistan.
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.
Waterville, Clinton and Somerset County logs, June 15 and 16
Robbery, fireworks, theft
Police seek man who stole oxycodone from Waterville Walmart
WATERVILLE — Police are trying to identify a man who robbed the Walmart pharmacy Tuesday night, fleeing the store with oxycodone pills.
Waterville police: Women rob cab driver, break into aparment
WATERVILLE — Two women allegedly robbed a cab driver Wednesday, broke into an apartment and then fled down Silver Street before being nabbed by police.
Woman arrested for burglary at Waterville pawn shop
WATERVILLE — Police on Tuesday arrested a woman in connection with a June 4 burglary at JR’s Trading & Pawn shop on Elm Street.
Lachowicz wins Senate District 25 Democratic nomination
Colleen Madigan Lachowicz beat Dana Bushee Hernandez for the Senate District 25 Democratic nomination, 827-755, a difference of only 72 votes.
Waterville Walmart pharmacy robbed
WATERVILLE — Police are trying to identify a man who robbed the Walmart pharmacy Tuesday night, fleeing the store with Oxycodone pills.