The building at 274 Front St. will be the home of the nationally accredited Sweatt-Winter Early Care and Education program.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3 incredibly better
We’re back with season 3 of “Only Murders in the Building,” the hugely popular American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. It may eventually turn out to be the “Barbie” of TV. Maybe it’s just climate change, but it’s incredibly better. If you’re joined at the hip with the millions […]
Thinking Things Through: Crawling along in the car
A recent trip to Rhode Island included many traffic jams on the way back to Maine, but there were silver linings, Liz Soares writes.
On the Edge: ‘We’ve got our guy’
J.P. Devine recalls the opportunity he received through the GI Bill to get into theater with the Cleveland playhouse gang of ’55.
Rich Abrahamson: Laughter, tears mix as man remembered in wake of fatal Anson boating accident
Mark Henry died ‘doing what he loved’ in July while boating on the river, and Rich Abrahamson just so happened to visit Henry 15 days before the accident.
Reporting Aside: A lifelong love of horses for one Canaan woman
At Anam Cara Farm in Canaan, Pamela Rickenbach takes in and cares for disabled, retired and homeless working horses, Amy Calder writes.
‘Jules’ creators embrace hope-filled screenplay formula
Finally, as we exit a murky June and July, a much-needed and heroic attempt to bring sweetness and light back to our new neighborhood screen arrives. In an industry, that as we speak, is bereft of hope and heroics and full of spiders and atomic clouds, “Jules” lands in our pines and offers a modicum […]
Backyard Naturalist: Yellow alchemy
An unknown glint in the grass of Unity sparks midsummer ruminations on what’s visible and the grace we need to see it, Dana Wilde writes.