Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
J.P. Devine: POTUS and the Post Office blues
The recent threats to the U.S. Postal Service have cut deep and personal for J.P. Devine.
Amy Calder: Restoration of Medal of Honor recipient’s gravestone a job well done
With help from volunteers, Joe Ferrannini helped preserve not only the gravestone of Civil War veteran Frank W. Haskell, who was awarded the Medal of Honor, but also several of his family members’ stones Sunday in Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville.
J.P. Devine Review: ‘Catastrophe’
‘When Harry Met Sally’ — ‘Catastrophe” is nothing of the sort, J.P. Devine writes.
Dana Wilde: Late summer reflections on hawkweed
Hawkweed are the faces of small summer children, a joy that is so unbelievable and reflective of nature itself, Dana Wilde writes.
J.P. Devine: Let me count the ways
An ode by J.P. Devine to the dear mask, on how we love and die in our times.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Morning Show’
Reese Witherspoon picks up the show and runs down the street with it J.P. Devine writes.
Liz Soares: Coming out of the coronavirus cloud
I didn’t think it could happen, but I found solace in the midst of a pandemic, writes Liz Soares.
J.P. Devine: We gotta get outta here
Thinking of all the places he’s been, and how badly he wanted to leave, J.P. Devine muses on the only other destination available right now.