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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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
Skowhegan man working for contractor dies at Sappi paper mill
George Cutten, 64, died suddenly last week while performing work at Sappi in Skowhegan for a Hermon construction company.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2023
Heat gun that was left on cited as source of fire at Gifford’s ice cream in Skowhegan
The heat gun was left atop a pallet of combustible materials inside a walk-in freezer, leading to the fire Thursday that damaged offices and a production area at Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream, according to Skowhegan fire Chief Ronnie Rodriguez.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2023
Fire damages Gifford’s ice cream production facility in Skowhegan
A company official said the fire began Thursday morning in a processing area where milk and cream are mixed for the company’s well-known ice cream.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2023
Snow followed by rain tamps down snowfall totals in central Maine
The most recent storm to move into the region left about 6 inches of snow in places such as Jackman and Manchester, but when people got up Thursday morning the totals had diminished due to the following rain.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2023
Former Waterville couple arrested on sexual assault charges involving children
Davina Petchonka and Charles H. Frost, believed to now be residents of Pittsfield, were arrested Dec. 1 and continue to be incarcerated at the Somerset County Jail in East Madison.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2023
Homeless in Maine: Struggling to survive even with a paying job
Those who interact most closely with the homeless say it’s a misconception that they don’t want to work or try to help themselves.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2023
Reporting Aside: ‘Devastation visible everywhere’
Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2023
Waterville woman with loaded AR-15 in vehicle taken into custody
The woman, who has mental health issues, led police on a chase throughout the city early Monday before they stopped her on a dead-end road on the Colby College campus and took her into protective custody.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2023
Body recovered from North Pond in Smithfield after ATV breaks through ice
Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving his side-by-side UTV across the pond with his wife and two other adult passengers at about 1 a.m. Sunday when it broke through the ice, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2023
Body recovered from North Pond in Smithfield after ATV breaks through ice
Jeremiah Meader, 42, of Smithfield was driving his side-by-side UTV across the pond with his wife and two other adult passengers at about 1 a.m. Sunday when it broke through the ice, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
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