Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: An accidental friendship in downtown Waterville
Two men in their 70s who met three years ago ride their bicycles from their homes in Waterville and Fairfield every day to talk, share stories and watch the world go by.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Out of the past
As his wife receives care in the hospital, J.P. Devine ponders how Kay saw a bright light long ago that now shines down upon present day circumstances.
Posted inColumns, Ron Joseph
In the Field: Ode to the peavey
Named after a Maine inventor, the 5-foot wooden lever tool revolutionized logging in North America and has forged a reputation that has stood the test of time, Ron Joseph writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Movie Review: ‘The Zone of Interest’ starts slow, grows richer, more compelling, J.P. Devine writes
Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” (“Sexy Beast” 2000) loosely based on Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, tells the true story of Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi commandant who ran the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II Poland while his wife and five children led a passive, comfortable life in a pristine new […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Confronting the possibility of cancer
Even as Princess Kate recently announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, Liz Soares recounts her own ordeal testing for thyroid cancer.
Posted inJ.P. Devine
The fall that changed plans for the next day and all the days and months
J.P. Devine writes about a fall that changes the next day and all the day and months to come.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Waterville highlights youth art
Children from 32 central Maine schools are exhibiting their works at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center and Greene Block + Studios through Sunday as part of Youth Art Month, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Movie Review: ‘Love at First Sight’ has plenty of music about love
British actors, Phillips, Tom Taylor, Dexter Fletcher are sweet and charming as Oliver’s family ‚ it almost becomes another script for another movie, J.P. Devine writes.