April is Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Month and experts in the field say abuse and neglect is increasing, so it’s up to community members to do what we can to help kids without a voice, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Local & State, News
Who, and where, are you reading?
Writers can’t just wait for readers to find us. We have to “market” the book. We have to take it and hit “The Road,” J.P. Devine writes.
advertisement
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
Our messy psyche will prevent a dictatorship
What we have on our side is our stubborn resistance to authority, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inCollege Connection, Columns
Supporting women in science is about encouragement
Based on the strong showing of female participants at the recent Maine State Science Fair, high schools are on the right track to foster more women in science, Amber Howard writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Who could have imagined cellphones becoming so pivotal?
Forty-four years ago, the first call was made from a portable, hand-held cellphone, a pivotal moment that has helped and complicated our lives in many ways, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
The old man in the golden cart
A ride through the market in the Golden Electric Cart proves that pain is temporary but humiliation is forever, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Girl in the glass case
Imagine Melania, from Sevnica in southeastern Slovenia, now in her own castle in a Fifth Avenue tower, where she is enshrined but forgotten, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
The value of air and water
If you value health, cleanliness and the woods and streams where you live, then regulations that protect these things are not ‘horrible,’ writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inColumns, Local & State, News
Mourning the loss of Maine’s only classical music station
As a bedside companion, WBACH was soothing and meditative, writes John Hale.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
As winter ends, remember the magic
We tend to regard winter months as drudgery as we grow older, but the fun we remember from youth is a reminder that the season brings its own joys, Amy Calder writes.