Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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J.P. Devine: The music of summer
Sports, especially baseball, is the music of the season; love songs from the bleachers, J.P. Devine writes.
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Amy Calder: Preserving a Medal of Honor veteran’s memorial
A Capitol Police officer and an American Legion chaplain team up to help raise funds to fix a Civil War veteran’s gravestone at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Fisherman’s Friends’
Trust me, you’ll be calmed in these furnace days with the seas and skies of Cornwall, (gorgeously photographed by Simon Tindall) the actors and original music. If ever we needed something to lift our spirits, it’s movies like this, writes Devine.
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Liz Soares: Witnessing the wonders of wildlife
The pandemic has meant people are staying home, and it appears that animals are benefiting and thriving because of it, writes Liz Soares.
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J.P. Devine: Remembering Olivia
A chance meeting at night with famed actress Olivia Mary De Havilland inside a bookstore remains a powerful memory for J.P. Devine.
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Dana Wilde: Life in the time of COVID, and climate change
I don’t know what else to do except to keep pointing to facts from the real world, writes Dana Wilde.
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J.P. Devine: In COVID-19 time, DON’T TOUCH IT
As careful as a person might be during the coronavirus pandemic, getting caught without a mask or gloves can trigger a most disconcerting panic, J.P. Devine writes.