Columns - Centralmaine.com

Senior Gathering beats loneliness

Seniors find friends at events held by UMaine Cooperative Extension in Skowhegan, Canaan, Smithfield and Madison, Amy Calder writes.

Norval and Karen Garnett and their grandson, Calder Amoroso, 2, take part in Maine Audubon’s annual Loon Count.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Just guys standing on a corner waiting for the fun guy, and his name was Friday, writes J.P. Devine.

Whether deer flies whirl around like devils or devils whirl around like deer flies, I don’t know, writes Dana Wilde.

Summer no longer brings a swell of expectation or independence — but it offers an escape, Emily Higginbotham writes.

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

When violence is normalized, our hearts and souls get twisted, writes Liz Soares.

As the committee celebrates its first year, it continues to work to meet the needs of senior citizens in the capital area.

A Skowhegan resident recalls memories of a friend awakened by tragedy on the high seas, Amy Calder writes.

The Fourth of July resurrects a sliver of time from a St. Louis movie theater in 1940, writes J.P. Devine.