In the midst of today’s volatility, Elizabeth LaBua gets up in the morning and goes to a job where people are actually making a difference. It’s rewarding, she tells writer Amy Calder.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: What’s your sign?
What message did the stars, the planets, the sun and moon have for Howard Schulz, the CEO of Starbucks, on May 29 when his stores closed so his employees could have a lesson on racial bias, writes astrology-addicted J.P. Devine.
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Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: Woodpeckers’ signals reveal beauty, complication
The birds’ tapping can be communicating complicated messages, such as domestic intimacy, as sounds are passed around out there among the trees, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State
Amy Calder: Time to make another film shot in Waterville
Waterville native Whitcomb Rummel Jr. has a great script, a director who is keen on shooting it, and a production team looking into financing it, writes Amy Calder.
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C. Marla Hoffman: Memorial Day chance to reflect on lives of the fallen
After my uncle’s death, I learned there was a lot I didn’t know about him, C. Marla Hoffman writes.
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J.P. Devine: Is that you, Zoe?
The cleaners at restaurants seem to have less time to chat with customers and tend to their chores like quiet ghosts until opportunity beckons, write J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: Slow changes in climate build to reckoning
The Earth’s climate is changing, whether you believe it or not, and so is the moral climate, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State
Emily Higginbotham: It’s my birthday, and I’ll freak out if I want to
It’s not a matter of turning 24 that’s bothersome; it’s letting the years go by without living life to the fullest, writes Emily Higginbotham.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns
Amy Calder: The 100-year legacy of Waterville’s Castonguay Square
While Waterville Creates!, the city, Colby College and residents will have the opportunity to redesign the park, one thing that shouldn’t be changed is its name, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
First impressions captured in a drawer full of snapshots
Meeting your significant other’s relatives while in character from a play you’re appearing in can lead to some interesting reactions, J.P. Devine writes.