It’s time to just accept that from now on, March is February and April is March, Dana Wilde writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Cancer shawls bring warmth — inside and out
Waterville 91-year-old knits shawls for patients at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care in Augusta, Amy Calder writes.
In defense of hoodies
Criminals may have given them a bad name, but J.P. Devine says there’s nothing better for keeping warm or — with the help of earplugs connected to nothing — avoiding the world.
Listen my children, let’s give Patriot’s Day its due in Maine
It’s about Lexington and Concord and the beginning of the American Dream, so let’s not let Longfellow down, Maureen Milliken writes.
Relics for posterity
If Don Draper’s coat from “Mad Men” can make the Smithsonian Institute, so can J.P. Devine’s personal papers, the columnist writes.
A spider in winter
Spiders find innovative ways to survive the winter, Dana Wilde writes.
Big hearts help little Troy Union Church
The community has banded together to help save the 175-year-old church which is closed because of structural problems, Amy Calder writes.
Number please
J.P. Devine writes of the days when telephones were always black and telephone numbers included words.
Not so wild about these ‘Cats
It’s hard to root for John Calipari and his unbeaten Kentucky team, Bill Stewart writes.
April’s cruelty can’t last in central Maine
It may not seem like spring yet, but the dog doo, the Bard and the Kennebec River cutters say it’s on its way, Maureen Milliken writes.