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 2, 2021
Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Waterville woman, killed when tree branch hit car, was executive chef, engaged to be married
Rochelle Hager, 31, died Monday when a large pine tree branch fell onto her car during strong winds, as she drove on Knowlton Corner Road in Farmington.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2021
Police: Man shot by officer after crash investigation in Norridgewock
Police have revealed the identities of the man who was shot and the Somerset County deputy who shot him.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2021
Public hearing on Kennebec River plan draws questions, comments about dam removal
The Maine Department of Marine Resources held a virtual public hearing Monday on a proposed amendment to its Kennebec River Management Plan.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2021
Fire destroys large commercial garage in Athens, drawing 12 fire departments
Firefighters were able to save two nearby buildings and a lot of equipment Saturday at Linkletter & Sons Inc. at 115 Harmony Road, but a 60-by-100-foot large commercial garage was destroyed.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2021
Woman indicted on charge she stole more than $10,000 from Alfond Youth Center in Waterville
Sherrie Anne Genness, 43, who worked as an office manager at the Alfond Youth & Community Center, is accused of taking the money over five years.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
Oakland woman impaled by tree branch in ‘fair’ condition
David and Theresa Roy were traveling on Pond Road in Sidney Tuesday when a tree fell on their vehicle in high winds and a branch came through the car and impaled Theresa Roy, who is 79.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2021
From 3,000 miles away, California mom is seeking answers to her daughter’s final days in Maine
Judy Schwartz of California was notified by police in January that her daughter, Jessica Dulin, who had been missing for a year, was found dead in Waterville, Maine, sending Schwartz on a mission to find out everything she could about her daughter’s last year of life.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
Fishing derby in Canaan kicks off weeklong Somerset SnowFest
SnowFest includes a series of activities, including the only equestrian skijoring race in the Northeast which involves a horse and rider pulling a snowboarder or an Alpine skier down a 1,000-foot track of gates and jumps.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2021
‘Improper passing’ led to head-on Fairfield crash, police say
A husband and wife from Madison were taken to the hospital Friday night after their van collided head-on with a car that apparently was trying to improperly pass other vehicles on Middle Road in Fairfield.
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