As Mother’s Day approaches, JP Devine reflects on his mother’s hard life and the small things that made it sparkle.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
A presidential election worthy of your attention
Even if you don’t normally care about history or politics, you have to admit we are witnessing a truly historic presidential election, writes Liz Soares.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
May evenings bring back sweet memories
May baskets filled with candy from Bushey’s were a rite of passage into summer for Skowhegan kids in the 1960s, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Waiting for the ‘new and improved’ tragedy this fall
If everything old is new again and if there’s a hero, it means a tragedy is being written — and it’ll be interesting to see what happens with the GOP convention this summer, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Once and future Mars
You can look southward and see Mars any clear night from now into early summer, 55 million miles or so leeward of the sun, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inCollege Connection, Columns
As affording college gets tougher, costs drivers generally not well understood
As a father with one child at university and another one going on college tours over vacation week as a junior in high school, Greg Fahy says he is very attentive to the costs of higher education.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Every year, Cindy’s birthday brings happy memories and sadness
A childhood friend who died too soon has not been forgotten, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Forced back from clean Maine air to dragon’s breath of LA
Just when J.P. Devine was gearing up for the outdoors in the sweet healthy Maine air, he has to return to California, which just got an air-quality “F” from the American Lung Association, he writes.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Commentary: Paris agreement addresses hazards of climate change, George Mitchell says
The plan, to be signed on Friday, should give Americans confidence that other countries will be held to the same standards as we are.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
Give a little context to those Facebook posts
With so many ways to communicate, it’s important to tell everyone what’s happening, writes Liz Soares.