A tribute to the old man, the officer of the day, ‘your father,’ Pop.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: The great escape to summer
From blossoms to insects and birds, we’re in full-on, deep-blue summer June, and free at last, columnist Dana Wilde writes.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Maine native returns to help LGBTQ youth
Brock Libby has spent years out of state studying adolescent medicine with an eye toward bringing his skills back to Maine to help youth, with a special focus on LGBTQ youth.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: In search of his Mainah identity
How I got here, how I left, how I came back, and how I finally stayed.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Liz Soares: Read all about it
Regardless of the politics involved, I want to see people reading, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns
Amy Calder: ‘A little bit of friendship’
Amy Calder reflects on the $75,000 gift actor Ed Harris contributed toward a future art and film center in downtown Waterville.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: And then he was gone
A memoir of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, who for a brief moment in time and on this night stood in the silver light, poised to step into history.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: A natural history of the Unity Park
I was walking around this park before it was a park, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: ‘On Memorial Day, we remember’
An Interstate 95 bridge over Main Street in Waterville is being named for Army Specialist Wade A. Slack, a Waterville man who died in 2010 while serving his country in Afghanistan.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
On the Edge: Remembering an heirloom for Memorial Day
It wasn’t much of a soccer ball, J.P. Devine writes, grass-stained and bruised, but it had been passed on from cousin to cousin and from brother to brother and bore the imprint of memory and association.