The Lighthouse Waterville Area Soup Kitchen on Monday opened an afternoon warming center and has launched a new fundraising campaign, the $100 Club, seeking 1,800 people to donate $100 each to fund the kitchen for a year.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]
Thinking Things Through: Watching the weather change
Liz Soares contemplates the accelerating changes of our climate and wonders if our attitudes need to change, too.
Opinion: Maine’s teachers need to be paid more
Tackling our teacher shortage won’t be possible without increasing teachers’ minimum starting salary,
On the Edge: New Year’s resolutions
J.P. Devine is resolving to improve his life while waiting for the next storm.
Reporting Aside: Anson man with Down syndrome finds purpose in cutting cloth
James Lynds has turned a passion for hard work into a business cutting clothing into rags to sell to auto mechanics, dealerships and other businesses, Amy Calder writes.
‘Freud’s Last Session’ a duel between Satan and God
Anthony Hopkins, left, and Matthew Goode in a scene from“Freud’s Last Session.” 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions “Freud’s Last Session,” directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) is a dark film we don’t need right now, but it brings us the gifted Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of the Lambs,” an even darker […]
Opinion: Maine’s Constitution must be clear: Reproductive freedom is a human right
The U.S. Supreme Court kicked the duty to fight for reproductive rights back to states. So let’s fight.
Backyard Naturalist: Thousands and thousands of ladybugs
Ladybird beetles may be unnerving in large numbers, but they’re largely a harmless nuisance, Dana Wilde writes.