The moderators came off as clearly partisan, but the GOP refused to let it simmer and overplayed its hand for a week.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Columns, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Self-appointed guardians of voting integrity just aim to intimidate
The Second Amendment sentinels who videotaped voters at the polls Tuesday may well have shot themselves in the foot.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Hills are alive in trip to Vermont
A chance to take an organized bus trip to the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, was a great weekend, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
It doesn’t feel like November, but it feels good
After all the fun and colors, November comes for everyone, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Here at the end of October
Next year’s firewood is cut, split, stacked and permanently covered beside The Shed, part of the fall ritual, writes columnist Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Joe Boudreau’s ‘fortunate’ outdoor life
Recently honored with the state’s 2015 Lifetime Outdoor Achievement Award, a 91-year-old Waterville man recalls a full life with family that centered on the great outdoors, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Sidelines, Sports, Varsity Maine
Coin flip decides regular season champ in Big Ten
Winslow High School football coach Mike Siviski walked to the edge of Waterville’s Drummond Field and took part in what had to be one of the oddest rituals in his more than three decades of coaching high school football, writes Travis Lazarczyk.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
Nun in full regalia stirs heart
When the Morning Sentinel published a picture of a nun in a traditional habit recently, it sent JP Devine spinning into his nun-filled past.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
The biochemical brains of butterflies
Some researchers are starting to think that brain size, and specifically the number of neurons, doesn’t exactly correlate to cognitive ability, writes columnist Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Business, Columns, Local & State, News
Oakland couple gets help with rotten home
After discovering mold in their dream home, Chris and Janet Weeks received help from volunteers and a local business to make it solid again, Amy Calder writes.