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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PublishedOctober 8, 2019
Racist flyers mailed to Skowhegan area school board members, others
The flyers feature a Ku Klux Klan hood, confederate flag and an Eye of Providence, and falsely says there will be a white supremacist Maine Green Independent Party fall gathering Oct. 27 at Belfast Public Library.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2019
Area residents call Waterville mayor out over Columbus proclamation
Mayor Nick Isgro read aloud a proclamation at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, declaring Oct. 14 Columbus Day, which drew criticism from the public, including one woman who asked him to apologize.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2019
At Common Ground fair, dire warnings about pesticide dangers
An investigative journalist talks about how manufacturers and policymakers continue to focus on profit over health.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2019
Waterville candidates file petitions to be on November ballot
Multiple people had filed petitions with the city clerk’s office to run for council, school board, charter commission and water district.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2019
Mills pardons Waterville man deported to Haiti
Lexius Saint Martin, who has a wife and children in Waterville, has been in Haiti since February 2018, when he was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2019
Unity barn fire started by child, official says
A boy under 10 was playing with fire and started a blaze Monday on Albion Road that destroyed the barn and damaged nearby structures.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2019
Somerset sheriff to launch active shooter app program for schools
In an active shooter situation, a teacher or school official would push a button and all law enforcement officials, especially those in the immediate area, would be alerted.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2019
State fire officials investigating Unity fire that destroyed barn, damaged mobile home
The fire Monday at 562 Albion Road destroyed a large barn, damaged a mobile home and vinyl siding on two garages and caused two spot fires across the road, according to Unity fire Chief Blaine Parsons.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Waterville melee ends with superficial stab wound
Police converged on Veterans Memorial Park Thursday afternoon where an intoxicated man who reportedly threatened a group of people with knives and screwdrivers was taken by ambulance to a hospital, claiming he was injured.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2019
Identities of victims in Clinton wagon crash released
Clinton police Chief Rusty Bell said two women remained hospitalized Wednesday after the crash Sunday in which a horse-drawn wagon carrying four passengers struck a utility pole, parked car and another utility pole before coming to rest in the street.
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