WATERVILLE — The 15th annual Maine International Film Festival opened Friday night to enthusiastic applause from about 500 people who packed the newly renovated Waterville Opera House.
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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Movie fans excited by opening night at film festival
WATERVILLE — The 15th annual Maine International Film Festival opened Friday night to enthusiastic applause from about 500 people who packed the newly renovated Waterville Opera House.
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Showtime: ‘VacationLand’ will kick off 10-day Maine International Film Festival
WATERVILLE — The Maine International Film Festival opens today with Academy Award nominee Karen Black bringing her Maine-made film, “Vacationland,” to the Waterville Opera House.
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Haines to leave executive director post at Waterville Main Street
WATERVILLE — Shannon Haines plans to resign in the fall as executive director of Waterville Main Street after nine years on the job.
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AMY CALDER: Farewell to the ‘Cross Man’
John Lewis was laid to rest Friday in a peaceful cemetery off Grove Street, just inches from the mother he loved dearly.
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AMY CALDER: Waterville to miss the Cross Man
John Lewis was laid to rest Friday in a peaceful cemetery off Grove Street, just inches from the mother he loved dearly.
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Public to see Waterville’s new plan for police station
WATERVILLE — The public can take a look and ask questions when preliminary plans for a new police station at Head of Falls go before the City Council and Planning Board tonight.
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AMY CALDER: The grace of aging
The bumper sticker on Marilyn Canavan’s car says it all: “Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History.”