Columnist Travis Lazarczyk goes to his artistic side on NFL controversy
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
He’ll sell you the shirt off his back
His nearly new collection of 45 shirts is a great way to lure people into buying his book, J.P. Devine writes.
Meet Dewey Wright, who’s ‘travlin and broke’
The 29-year-old has seen a lot in his 15 years of hopping trains, hitchhiking around the country, living in the woods and panhandling on the streets, Amy Calder writes.
The games of afterlife
Pondering reincarnation, J.P. Devine recalls when a visiting priest told him about Heaven and Hell, Purgatory and someplace called Limbo.
Saying goodbye to a sports editing mentor
Sports Editor Bill Stewart reflects on the lasting influence of a former editor at the Berkshire Eagle.
Irksome arm issue makes summer no fun
The need to wear long sleeves is cutting down on JP Devine’s sun time, he writes
‘Tumbledown’ audience is the best of Franklin County
The movie, written by a Farmington woman, was filmed in Massachusetts and has a Hollywood sensibility, but the hometown crowd at MIFF loved it anyway.
Putting a woman’s face on the bill
Amid talk of women for the $10 bill, J.P. Devine suggests a list that colors a bit outside the lines.
Black widow fear justified in Maine?
While the spiders might hitch a ride here on grapes or in luggage, our cold winters prevent them from living in Maine, writes Dana Wilde.
All hail the man in the seersucker suit
The garb of Atticus Finch, William F. Buckley and St. Louis working men who listened to the Cardinals on the radio, hot-weather fashion perfection is wasted on the young, JP Devine writes.