Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Working the streets again?
Mulling how he can earn some ‘extra’ cash, J.P. Devine assesses his talents and possible entertainment acts.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Waterville church offers soup, sandwich and kindness
The Evening Sandwich Program in the basement of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville is a lifeline for Terri Cashman, 42, and her husband, who live in a garage.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Movie Review: ‘Scoop’ compelling, high speed, no brakes story of a group of newspaper people, J.P. Devine writes
Scoop: a piece of news published by a newspaper or broadcast by a television or radio station in advance of its rivals. And that’s the story of “Scoop” in director Philip Martin’s compelling, high speed, no brakes story of a group of newspaper people, from the top floor of the Royal Palace to the glassed […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
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.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
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.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
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.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
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.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
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.”