On Halloween, when little munchkins are trolling the streets, watch out, Amy Calder advises.
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 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, 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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Candlelight vigil held for Waterville woman allegedly slain by boyfriend
About 50 people attended an evening ceremony Sunday night in memory of Melissa Sousa, the 29-year-old mother of twin 8-year-old daughters who was allegedly killed by her longtime boyfriend, Nicholas Lovejoy.
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L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley offers spooky Halloween stuff
Dinosaur skeletons shriek, pumpkins talk, ghouls frighten and crows talk at the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, a village of Fairfield.
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Benton Falls Harvest Fest benefits church restoration
The community is rallying to raise funds to help fix the 190-year-old church, whose 798-pound Revere bell came to Benton Falls by boat from Boston in the 1800s.
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Waterville firefighters extinguish blaze behind Thayer Center for Health
Waterville Fire Captain Eion Pelletier said there appeared to be some type of campsite in the woods, a 10-by-10-foot area and firefighters extinguished it.
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Body identified as missing Waterville woman; boyfriend charged with murder
Family and friends of Melissa Sousa, 29, say her boyfriend and the father of their children, Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, was mentally unstable and could not take knowing she was leaving him.
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Somerset Sheriff’s Office charges 2 in Pittsfield drug bust
Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said Wednesday that a Pittsfield couple was charged with possession of scheduled drugs after a drug bust Tuesday.
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Missing Waterville woman’s boyfriend threatened to kill her, boss says
Waterville and State police removed a body from the missing woman’s residence Wednesday night.
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Waterville siblings purchase another building downtown
Tom and Tracy Nale buy 99 Main St., the former Al Corey music building adjacent to the Arnold Block that the siblings bought in spring 2018.
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Two indicted, one sentenced in burglaries, thefts in Somerset and other counties
A monthslong investigation by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies has landed one person in prison. Two others have been indicted, and the investigation is expected to result in charges against more people, according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster. Money, drugs, firearms, tools, a gun safe, checks and other items were recovered […]