A committee looking at career and college readiness is an inspiring example of educators thinking outside the box to ensure all students have a chance, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Requiem for two strangers
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, J.P. Devine remembers the image of a man and a woman holding hands and stepping off into the unknown.
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Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Summer’s getting ready to close down
You might have noticed that where six weeks or so ago you were fooling around in your yard in twilight after 9 p.m., now in September daylight is fading out around 7:30, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Change takes on a different hue as the years pass
As the seasons change, we’re better off embracing the past, rather than lamenting it, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
The sweet peace of summer is over; ’tis autumn
The slow, quiet days are done and the noisy, cold and busy ones are beginning, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
Sea gull shows how to rise above nasty politics
Gov. Paul LePage, like Donald Trump, has a tin ear when it comes to sensitivity and tolerance, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Public nail clipping and teeth flossing? People who snap gum? Arggh.
The more we talk about what irks us, the more things we can think of, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Years, miles between LA, Maine collapse with word of friend’s death
When his daughter calls from Hollywood to tell him Jack Riley is dead, J.P. Devine is back in that ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ rehearsal room, and the decades in between slip away, he writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Late-August morning walk in Central Maine
Turtles, birds, trees and flowers all part of the scene on a recent day, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, News
Waterville man finds a happy home for himself and his pets
Gary Prentiss, who lives with disabilities, had to leave his Kennedy Memorial Drive home and had nowhere to go, but then he found out how many friends he has, Amy Calder writes.