While the coronavirus has your attention, a more catastrophic threat to the human race — climate change — continues to boil along in the background, writes Dana Wilde.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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J.P. Devine: Ghost light and other stories
J.P. Devine plans to buy a small ghost light to put in his window to remind him of what, and whom, he’s lost.
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Amy Calder: Students spend emotional last moments before leaving school for good
Fifth graders, teachers get a last look at each other at the Albert S. Hall School in Waterville as students pick up their belongings and move on to the junior high next year.
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Never Have I Ever’
Netflix seems to be taking the lead in providing a good group of shows dealing with the problems of younger viewers, J.P. Devine writes.
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Liz Soares: With the coronavirus creating calendar confusion, every day is Blursday
Sheltering in place is doing weird things to my sense of time, writes Liz Soares.
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J.P. Devine: You have to roll with what toilet paper you have
Thinking about the history of toilet paper, J.P. Devine muses about cleanliness and what sorts of gifts we may now give to each other.
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Amy Calder: Living one day at a time
Being out of work during the coronavirus pandemic is tough for a small Waterville family, but they try to be positive, Amy Calder writes.
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JP Devine TV Review: ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’
Series filled with razor-sharp edges, startling optics, and a cast of characters drawn from John Steinbeck, William Saroyan and Dashiell Hammett.
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Dana Wilde: Life on Mars seeming more likely all the time
Astrobiologists seem to just waiting for the very last piece of the 10,000-piece puzzle to tell us that there is, or at least has been, life on Mars, Dana Wilde writes.
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J.P. Devine: Social distancing reminds us how precious hugs are
Longing for crowds and companionship, J.P. Devine is will settle for a hug for now in the new normal.