Educators had a different style of teaching in the 1940s, an era filled with its own challenges.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Kindness fulfills tree house promise to 8-year-old
When lung cancer took Nina Rose Mitchell’s father, his pledge to build her a tree house fell to a contractor salesman and a carpenter who thought she was a sweetheart.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: POTUS pouting over his lost parade
Being emotionally 9 years old when you’re the president can get you — and the whole world — in trouble, but wanting a big, ‘Ben Hur’-type parade then becomes understandable, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: Bug and snake anecdotes
One person’s backyard observation is insufficient evidence of anything general, except in that one location at that one time.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Women with tattoo’s are everywhere
Once the province of sailors, pirates and professional wrestlers, body art adds a layer of expression to modern women demanding control of their bodies and appearance, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
Liz Soares: The greatest antidote to racism is people who speak the truth
Those who take to the streets out of hatred for their fellow human beings are not ‘fine.’
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State
Taking the scenic route all the way to Maine
It was on this path that I learned happiness is not a place, writes Emily Higginbotham.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Waterville’s Lebanese community honors Mary Ayoob
A registered nurse, Ayoob has delivered many of her nieces and nephews and may be the oldest living member of the local community.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
J.P. Devine: Say goodbye to plastic straws
While sharing a cherry vanilla phosphate using paper straws was once romantic, plastic straws have become anathema since one was found jammed up the nose of a sea turtle, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
News, close encounters from Mars
The red planet is brighter and closer than usual to Earth this summer, while scientists say there’s mounting evidence of water, which could mean extraterrestrial life, Dana Wilde writes.