Among the first to respond to the chaos of Wednesday’s 75-vehicle pileup on I-95, Allen Nygren scrambled from car to car, assessing the injured and calming all.
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.
‘Everything was just crashing and crashing and crashing’ as 75-car pileup injures 17 on Maine interstate
The accident on snowy I-95 west of Bangor leaves a ‘giant pile of metal’ in the road and authorities shocked that no one was killed.
Waterville fire victims from ‘a family of firefighters’
A woman whose home was destroyed in the apartment house fire said one of a few mementos saved from the blaze was a photo of her father in his full-dress firefighter uniform — a picture she didn’t know she had.
Wind-whipped blaze destroys Waterville apartment building
Nine adults and three children are left homeless and two cats remain missing after the fire.
Waterville fire destroys South End apartment house
Twelve people are left homeless in the wind-driven fire on Paris Street.
Waterville area police, FBI seek suspect in four bank robberies
They believe the same robber hit banks between December 2012 and Feb. 12 this year.
Waterville woman flips Jeep, allegedly bites police
Jennifer Merry, 33, is charged with criminal operating under the influence, assault and refusing to submit to arrest after the Monday incident.
LePage’s stand on revenues ‘evolved’
‘Regionalization does make sense,’ the governor says in a wide-ranging interview in the city where he once was mayor.
LePage previews state tour to tout overhaul of Maine tax code
The Republican governor pitches his budget before a friendly and familiar audience, the Waterville Rotary Club.
Snowmobiler who died on Mount Kineo identified as N.C. man
Arthur Meuse was thrown from his machine in a crash and run over by another sled.