“One Hundred Years is Nothing,” Season 5, episode 1.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Reporting Aside: ‘Devastation visible everywhere’
Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, Amy Calder writes.
Thinking Things Through: Tweaking the inner clock
Readjusting her relationship with time, Liz Soares ponders the luxury of retirement and the changing seasons of our lives.
On the Edge: The ice Maine cometh
Columnist J.P. Devine recalls the exact moment everything stopped and the ice storm forced them to seek shelter.
On the Edge: What just happened?
Surrounded by emptiness after Christmas, J.P. Devine ponders an aging ornament and what’s lasting in his own life.
‘And Just Like That’ the show goes on
They’re back and nobody cares. That’s the opinion of a stocking full of critics (58% on Rotten Tomatoes) and the public (30% audience). That has to hurt. As my review reaches your eyes, you and everyone on your viewing block knows that there are now only three of the upper class, rich, well-preserved ladies of […]
‘The Apartment’ is gonna make your New Year’s Eve
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s (That magic team who gave us “Some Like It Hot”) great, immortal love story begins with a wide shot of C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) appearing as one of what appears to be 300 other corporate lemmings, sitting at 300 desks, punching out numbers on 300 tabulators. It ends with an […]
Backyard Naturalist: Year-end thoughts on climate change
This month’s highly irregular weather is a symptom of the fact that global warming is real and spelling trouble, Dana Wilde writes.