J.P. Devine reflects on hearing and not hearing over the decades.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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All Waterville woman wants is a family home | Column
Living in a tent in the woods with her husband, Tasha Wellman dreams that one day she will be with her family together in a real house.
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Oakland woman says 103rd birthday will be ‘just another day’ | Column
Edith Cunningham remembers the days when there were dirt roads, no electricity, the family was snowed in for two or three days and she rode a horse-drawn sleigh to school in winter.
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Hot days in Waterville, St. Louis or Japan call for water | Column
A Waterville writer shares his memories of giving the gift of water.
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Unlike Waterville, it never rains in Hollywood | Column
Bad weather often drives people from beaches and outside activities to indoor theaters for entertainment.
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Recalling ‘M-A-S-H’ creator’s Waterville connection | Column
Dedicated “M-A-S-H” fans and Waterville residents Joe Schmalzel and his son, Joshua, gave a presentation about Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.’s life and work at the then-Thayer Hospital, Amy Calder writes.
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Notes from the bus, Waterville writer shares the memory of a bus ride | Column
One small slip of paper from years ago discovered in a box brings back a cascade of memories, J.P. Devine writes.
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Visitors and paperwork help arrive for Waterville writer | Column
J.P. Devine and family scale the mountain of paperwork, dive into the pool of memories over Father’s Day.
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Leaving our central Maine youth in the dust | Column
We baby boomers had it pretty good when we consider how young people entering the workforce now struggle to meet high rents, buy food and gas and pay off college and car loans, Amy Calder writes.
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Saying goodbye to an old Skowhegan school | Column
A recent tour of the soon-to-be-razed Margaret Chase Smith School conjured some happy memories from the 1960s — and a couple of unfortunate ones, Amy Calder writes.