Now, more than ever, I relish the chance to immerse myself in the world of the March sisters, writes Liz Soares.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
J.P. Devine: Something happened that keeps my children coming home
Children grow up and leave home in a blink of an eye, but Christmas keeps them coming to visit every year, J.P. Devine writes.
Dana Wilde: Backyard Christmas trees
The magic of finding a symbol in the Christmas woods provides a lasting memory more powerful than any scientifically nurtured tree.
Reporting Aside: Saving lives, one person at a time
The Waterville Police Department’s Operation HOPE program helps people addicted to opioids get into treatment facilities, Amy Calder writes.
J.P. Devine: A Christmas story about acting and dying
The former Hollywood actor recounts a role from the 1960’s era show “Twelve O’Clock High,” in which he played a pilot who was shot down in a bomber and killed two days before Christmas.
Liz Soares: Virtual experiences creating unreality
The art of living in the real, bricks-and-mortar world is not coming naturally to our young people, writes Liz Soares.
Amy Calder: ‘Bicycle man’ working to help people
Douglas Whitney, 50, of Waterville, corrals and fixes stray bicycles, then sells or donates them to people who don’t have one, writes Amy Calder.
J.P. Devine: What? Me worry?
A theory about a holy star really being a meteor has J.P. Devine worrying about a large rock now hurtling toward Earth.
Dana Wilde: A wolf in the wild
Of Farmington resident Phil Poirier’s thoughtful camping stories, the story about a Canadian expedition was one to share with readers, writes Dana Wilde.
Amy Calder: An extraordinary Christmas gift
Travis Conway, 40, got a new heart when he was 13 and now has a new kidney, thanks to a former classmate who donated one to a kidney bank so he could receive one that was a match.