Only passive landscaping is keeping the birches, sumac and raspberry thickets from taking over the yard, Dana Wilde writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Amy Calder: The past will seem like yesterday when bonds of love are renewed
The passing of a friend’s mother will bring our families back together, awaken memories, and renew friendship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Amy Calder writes.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: It’s June in Waterville and time for a wedding
With the month and summer busting out all over, only a week remains to get the wedding caravan rolling, get the flowers, rent the tux and bake the cake, writes J.P Devine.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
Liz Soares: Education, compassion key in understanding human rights
Lessons from the book ‘I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World’ offer a timely reminder, Liz Soares writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State
Amy Calder: Behind the scenes with police dispatchers
The first “first responders,” the men and women who take the calls, collect vital information that police and firefighters deal with, from whether a threatening spouse is armed or intoxicated to the details of a woman giving birth.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Dining al fresco courts disaster
After all, writes J.P. Devine, who knows when you’re going to catch a wind-blown, mustard-covered napkin in the face?
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: A narrated showdown between 2 spiders in a vial
Nature, red in tooth and claw, was on full display as a hammock spider and jumping spider encountered each other, Dana Wilde writes.
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Amy Calder: ‘The Bachelorette’ a break from reality
Funny, unpredictable, romantic, a sure way to make a husband or boyfriend disappear, the prime-time show may be just the antidote when the divisiveness and depressing events in the world get to be too much, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Love, not for sale
While all manner of good sense argues to banish tokens of a bygone era to storage, some things linger through time, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State
‘Chicken-salad guy’ a window into decline of social standards
Experiences at the supermarket can provide examples of our societal lack of self-restraint, the absence of consideration for our fellow humans, and ignorance of the importance of social mores, Liz Soares writes.