The Regional School Unit 9 will be seeing an 8.26% increase in their overall to their budget, but taxpayers will only be responsible for 4.45%.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Movie Review: ‘Wildcat’ won’t be anyone’s choice for a summer’s beach read
Here we are once again watching the work of director Ethan Hawke, one of Hollywood’s birds of paradise who flits from one tree to another in that land of artists looking for the right branch in which to build a permanent nest. Hawke’s problem, if it is one, is that he’s pretty good at all […]
Thinking Things Through: Retirement is a journey, not a destination
Liz Soares talks about reckoning with the loss of identity in retirement.
On the Edge: Mother’s Day
J.P. Devine pauses to remember that we live in a world where mothers and their children are going hungry this very morning.
Reporting Aside: A team born of persistence and passion
Sarah Joliat and her son, Kristian, helped launch an ice hockey program in Maine for those who are intellectually and developmentally disabled.
TV Series Review: ‘Sugar’ is good stuff, and fun to watch, J.P. Devine writes
Sugar … “Olivia” Well, here he is. Colin Farrell fresh out of Ireland and with no accent at all (mostly just a hint of San Fernando Valley). He’s here in a new tailored suit on the street driving a sleek convertible he had hidden in a friend’s (handler’s?) garage. She is Ruby (Kirby), who comes […]
Backyard Naturalist: The music of the winter wren
More than a century and half after Henry David Thoreau first captured his impressions of the world around him, his words remain a reliable guide, Dana Wilde writes.
On the Edge: I was chosen. I hope I can stay that way.
Recalling a moment nearly 70 years ago, J.P. Devine describes being illuminated in a pool of holy light that has continued to shine on.