Organizers of the walk set for Saturday say there is still a stigma surrounding the illness and they’d like to see more people get involved with awareness.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Who’s going to play in Trump’s yard?
As the presidential election season rolls along, the kids are all trying to figure out if they like the popular boy, JP Devine writes.
Martian time slip
It takes 4.5 minutes for light to travel from Earth to Mars in their current positions, slightly skewing clock measurements — not to mention the psyches of people trying to make sense out of them, writes Dana Wilde.
Out of family’s tragedy comes a positive haven for families of suicide
The Mosher siblings run a weeklong camp for children who have a loved one who, like their father, committed suicide.
And yes, my mother had a pony
As Mother’s Day approaches, JP Devine reflects on his mother’s hard life and the small things that made it sparkle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.