Regardless of the politics involved, I want to see people reading, writes Liz Soares.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
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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.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: Fiddling while Earth burns
While the tornadoes get bigger and the wildfires burn, the politicians fiddle for money, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Waterville woman ‘grateful to be alive’
Rebecca Nadeau, 38, lost both legs six months ago to what doctors diagnosed as compartment syndrome, but she is adjusting to her misfortune, looking forward and moving on.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: May Day 1952, the Movie
J.P. Devine writes about an occupier’s view of a Japanese riot, or how best to avoid the animosity of a mob and embrace the discretion of a big guy.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
Liz Soares: Simple things still count
When I perused the pile of cards sent to me by second-graders, I remembered there is good in the world, writes Liz Soares.