Reporting Aside: This central Maine police chief is reaching out to save lives

Clinton police Chief Rusty Bell goes above and beyond to help those in need, even posting his personal cellphone number on social media after two residents took their own lives, urging people to call him if they want to talk.

In the Field: Maine moose sightings becoming rarer as climate change boosts tick populations

Ron Joseph reflects that seeing a moose can be a lifetime memory, but he wonders if Maine's most iconic animal will survive the century as warmer seasons breed more ticks.

Movie Review: ‘No Hard Feelings’ script full of unlikely consequences, TV laughs, J.P. Devine writes

Boy meets girl with a script full of unlikely consequences and TV laughs, which happily won this reviewer over.

Thinking Things Through: Living the gardening dream

Gardens are not static, and gardeners should not be either, Liz Soares writes.

J.P. Devine Podcast: How to make a dollar on the Waterville streets

On the Edge: Working the streets again?

Mulling how he can earn some 'extra' cash, J.P. Devine assesses his talents and possible entertainment acts.

Reporting Aside: Waterville church offers soup, sandwich and kindness

The Evening Sandwich Program in the basement of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville is a lifeline for Terri Cashman, 42, and her husband, who live in a garage.

Movie Review: ‘Scoop’ compelling, high speed, no brakes story of a group of newspaper people, J.P. Devine writes

Backyard Naturalist: Mining bees and the beginning of spring

After a strangely disrupted winter, the routine signs of life returning this month are reassuring that some kind of conventional order persists, Dana Wilde writes.

J.P. Devine Podcast: Meet Ms. Kramer