Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Just guys standing on a corner waiting for the fun guy, and his name was Friday, writes J.P. Devine.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Summer’s unsung outlaws
Whether deer flies whirl around like devils or devils whirl around like deer flies, I don’t know, writes Dana Wilde.
The meaning of summer through the ages
Summer no longer brings a swell of expectation or independence — but it offers an escape, Emily Higginbotham writes.
Thinking of returning to Lotus Land
When daughters from the City of Angels, it can produce a dangerously flirtatious moment of fantasy for even a thinking man, J.P. Devine writes
Trump’s CNN tweet ‘no laughing matter’
When violence is normalized, our hearts and souls get twisted, writes Liz Soares.
Augusta Age Friendly first to create resource guide
As the committee celebrates its first year, it continues to work to meet the needs of senior citizens in the capital area.
Death of a classmate long remembered
A Skowhegan resident recalls memories of a friend awakened by tragedy on the high seas, Amy Calder writes.
Jimmy Cagney, a favorite, was a big shot
The Fourth of July resurrects a sliver of time from a St. Louis movie theater in 1940, writes J.P. Devine.
Trials of being plugged in but still disconnected
Behind our phones, tablets and laptops, we are living a life once-removed from the physical, feeling world, Emily Higginbotham writes.
At Waterville riverfront park, painful pasts drive hope for better times
Patrick Lavoie and others say they look out for each other and the tranquility of the Waterville park, Amy Calder writes.