In case you’ve missed it, the Earth is currently undergoing the sixth mass extinction of life forms in the 3.5-billion-year history of life, writes Dana Wilde.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Lifestyle, Local & State
Video: At ‘He and She’ talk, the Devines entertain crowd at Colby College
J.P. Devine and Kay Joly Devine spoke before a crowd of 175 Tuesday at the Waterville college.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: In 48 years, hotel worker did 774 tons of laundry
Rome woman who retired from Waterville hotel is an ‘anomaly,’ her former boss said: “What are the odds that any of us would be in the same job for 48 years?”
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
J.P. Devine: Bernie and Beto, Dems’ sunshine boys, running for president
Casting about for Democratic men to play the role of president, J.P. Devine likes the Jimmy Stewart knockoff Beto O’Rourke from El Paso, Texas, and the Vermonter with the Brooklyn accent, Bernie Sanders.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Lifestyle
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Woman At War’
Heroine’s war against the future simmers, unfolds, bubbles up and explodes in our face.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Liz Soares: Plant-based diets healthier for us … and the environment
Liz Soares writes she is pleased that ‘the concept of plant-based diets is entering the national conversation.’
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Maine Crime, Op-Eds
Amy Calder: Niece honors aunt who died in Norridgewock domestic violence
Crystal Lancaster Mulherin is raising funds to help those affected by domestic violence, nearly one year after her aunt, Marie Lancaster-Hale, was murdered at her home in Norridgewock.
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J.P. Devine: An ornament to hang on Padraig’s day
Since it’s the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — his death, not his birth — J.P. decided to share his take on the many myths surrounding the holiday.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: The craters of winter
By the beginning of March, there is so much snow plowed up around the yard we feel like we’re living in a crater. From there, it only gets weirder, Dana Wilde writes.
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Amy Calder: Waiting for a second shingles shot
Suffering after her first shingles vaccine and then missing out on the second didn’t deter Amy Calder from trying again, she writes, but this time she hopes that second shot comes through.