Reading a recent memoir highlights the power of education and its importance to the future of our society, Liz Soares writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Civil War nurse made her mark in history
Pittsfield woman’s great-great-grandmother tended to wounded soldiers on the battlefield, beginning at the Battle of Bull Run, writes Amy Calder.
advertisement
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Live from Canada
With no cable or internet available in remote Canada, the results of the election have yet to reach J.P. Devine, who is checking out yurts with hot plates should the vote go the wrong way.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: How did it get to be fall again?
Years pass like seasons, piling up gradually like waves on a beach until it’s high tide, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: World Series a reprieve and a reminder
For a few precious days we got to remember it wasn’t so long ago that we were in a saner world, enjoying a tradition our country loves and cherishes, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Darkness at noon musings
Nature’s seasonal darkness is descending, made even darker and scarier by the coming midterm elections, but we can turn on the lights of truth, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
Liz Soares: Listening to poetry, words that matter
A lesson in speaking out against hate, bitterness and fear through the eyes of students reveals the power of words, Liz Soares writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Sam Shapiro honored for lifetime achievement by state treasurers’ association
Shapiro, 91, was recognized for his service to his constituents, which really translates to making other people’s lives better — and that’s no small tomatoes, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
J.P. Devine: Mickey was the first kill
It didn’t get any easier as the transmigration of now five souls has been halted by a diabolical instrument of death designed to rid a domicile of mice, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Backyard Naturalist: Suicide by climate change, or not
For the sake of your own backyard, maybe you want to vote in the next election, Dana Wilde writes.