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 […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
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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.”
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: The beauty of birds
We may think of birds and other wildlife as separate from us humans, but we really are all a symbiotic part of this Earth we call home, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Community News, News, Schools and Education
Farmington-based school district establishes committee to resurface athletic field
Some directors are concerned about potential health hazards related to synthetic turf.