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

On the Edge: Ms. Kramer and me

Recalling that he has been “one” with birds ever since childhood, J.P. Devine ponders how eventually every bird flies away.

Reporting Aside: Daughters haunted by mother’s killing in Waterville

Sisters Caitlyn and Kayla Bragg discuss the grief and agony their family has felt since the Dec. 27 killing of their mother, Angela Bragg.

Thinking Things Through: We need a handbook to navigate health care

Recent battles over prescriptions have led to eye-opening frustrations with the American medical system, Liz Soares writes.

Movie Review: ‘Wicked Little Letters’ a wonderful film, J.P. Devine writes

Olivia Colman, the belle of the new cinema, emerges here as a buttoned-up serial nut case in a family of local “crabs.”

JP Podcast: Remembering Katherine Joly Devine, who ‘floated to the other side’

Reporting Aside: The beauty of birds

We may think of birds and other wildlife as separate from us humans, but we really are all a symbiotic part of this Earth we call home, Amy Calder writes.

Farmington-based school district establishes committee to resurface athletic field

Some directors are concerned about potential health hazards related to synthetic turf.