Why do people line up in below-zero weather at park headquarters in January? Because it’s worth it, Maureen Milliken writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
One lucky day for the mice man
Good fortune comes to man whose mice story reflects character, writes Amy Calder.
Alberta or bust: Musings on good health
J.P. Devine ponders the benefits of wine and is strangely focused on points north.
Earning a team’s respect is paramount
Ian Wilson, coach of the Waterville girls soccer team, says gaining the trust of his playing group is a top priority.
Winter, stars and aliens
The kaleidoscopic night-shining sky rattles columnist Dana Wilde’s brain.
J.P. Devine’s best stories of 2014
A broken garage door, losing weight and getting Netflix to watch ‘Breaking Bad,’ but the Blu-Ray breaking were highlights at J.P.’s Waterville home.
Break out the banana daiquiris and foot-long cigars: Cuba is back, baby
Still mad about the Cuban Missile Crisis? That’s so last century. Let the good times roll, J.P Devine writes.
Winter in the northern sky
For months it will be too much trouble to clamber over walls of plowed up snow to get to the Shed and its creaking floorboards, only to forget what brought me there in the first place, writes Dana Wilde.
Hollywood, thanks for the Christmas memories
In December, the stars came out in Beverly Hills, and they all flocked to Martindale’s bookstore, J.P. Devine recalls.
Does it matter that there’s no (spoiler alert!) Santa Claus?
Don’t get all uptight about everyone else’s Christmas – you only have to worry about your own, Maureen Milliken writes.