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.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
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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.
Posted inColumns, Sports
A Hall of Fame honor for a Hall of Fame person
Julie Benecke’s impact stretches far beyond the world of athletics.
Posted inColumns, Local & State, News
Elmer’s Barn in Coopers Mills sparks morbid fascination
A day trip with Mum to the antique store is a creepy pre-Halloween adventure, writes columnist Adrian Crawford.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
Come fly with me? Sorry, no.
Fear of flying and daughters’ destination weddings don’t mix well, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Wood crafter leaves his mark along the Kennebec River
Outdoorsman Charlie Poulin creates sculptures of birds from the natural environment he loves, and he crafted four wooden signs to mark Waterville trails that say “Lockwood Mill Island Park, Carry In, Carry Out, Enjoy the Kennebec Trail.”
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Patrick Kennedy, writing about family’s addictions, has a lot of company
JP Devine knows what it’s like to grow up in a family where the wages of alcoholism are kept secret, he writes.