JP Devine muses on winning $1.6 billion and how he’d go from being a writing ‘vendor’ to someone who can buy anything and not have to remember what it was.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
A morphology of Maine winter
On some January afternoons, the only things breathing are words, writes Dana Wilde.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Sugary goodies and journalism go hand in hand
Holidays, birthdays and deadline pressure combine to make the newsroom a hotbed of treat gobbling, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
There’s no bounce in a nonsports boyhood
The world’s obsession with balls and playing with them doesn’t work for those who would rather not, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Local & State, Maureen Milliken, News
Here’s what Kennebec Tales would have had in 2016
The Belgrade Boston Post Cane, The Good News Club, downtown successes and other stuff would have been great topics if Kennebec Tales wasn’t ending its run, Maureen Milliken writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
In times of loss, friends become even more important
On the anniversary of her mother’s passing, Amy Calder writes, it’s important to have good friends around.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Our home, like the mall after Christmas, is empty, but our hearts are still full
When children grow up and move away, the end of the holidays brings an emptiness, but love is always still there, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
The value of a fact
The Earth is not flat, it never has been, and no one but a careless-minded handful ever thought so, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Hold tight to your snow globes, and your dreams
Once the snow globe breaks, the beautiful illusion is lost, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Sidelines, Sports
The airing of Maine high school sports grievances
In a strangely cathartic experience as part of Festivus, Evan Crawley writes about the things that bother him most.