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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PublishedSeptember 27, 2024
Central Maine riders, officials worry about transportation contract change
Maine awarded its nonemergency medical transport contract for eligible MaineCare recipients to Modivcare, but Penquis Community Action Program, which has been Kennebec Valley Community Action Program’s broker for transportation for the last 10 years, has appealed that decision, with KVCAP officials saying moving to Modivcare could devastate KVCAP’s transportation system.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2024
Maine’s nonemergency transport contract remains under review
While an appeal process is ongoing, the state extended the contract with Penquis to the end of this year.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2024
Reporting Aside: Memories of Skowhegan’s ‘dairy treat’
While much changed around the Island Dairy Treat in Skowhegan during the 72 seasons it was in business, the ice cream stand soldiered on as a tradition that brought much joy to longtime residents and customers, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2024
Update: ‘Nothing suspicious’ about death of Somerset County Jail inmate, state police say
A Somerset County Sheriff’s Office official has identified the inmate found dead inside her cell late Friday as Amber Marie Mills, 29.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2024
Police investigating hit-and-run that damaged Waterville restaurant, owner says
A car hit Mezza at 34 Temple St. on Friday morning, causing substantial damage. The vehicle then left the scene, according to Tom Nale Sr., the restaurant’s owner.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2024
Four arrested on drug charges after traffic stop in Fairfield
A state trooper stopped a vehicle on U.S. Route 201 just before midnight Saturday and recognized the driver and a passenger as those who had fought last month with a trooper who was trying to arrest one of them in Augusta, officials said.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2024
Author talks climate future at Common Ground Country Fair
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of “What if We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures,” speaks Saturday at the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2024
Police investigate death of Somerset jail inmate
State police are investigating the death of a woman who was incarcerated at Somerset County Jail in Madison.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2024
Man charged with murder in Waterville shooting death
Tyler Quirion, 20, of Waterville, was arrested Friday and charged with murder, manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person in the Feb. 19 killing of Justin Iraola on South Grove Street.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2024
Reporting Aside: A slice of police life
Local police officers and dispatchers help save lives nearly every day, though that work often runs largely under the radar, Amy Calder writes.
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