Motorists get a fresh perspective of downtown Waterville with the new traffic pattern that allows for two-way traffic on Main and Front streets, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Yellowstone’s Duttons are mad, bad and dangerous to know
This is for those who forgot to set their alarm for the season 4 opening when it premiered. When master writer/actor and director of “Yellowstone,” threw us off the Peacock bus last season, John Dutton was laying by the side of a deserted road, bleeding to death. John (the indestructible Kevin Costner) must have taken […]
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‘Love Actually’ an amazing Christmas parade of lovers
I hope you didn’t miss the Tuesday night, Nov. 29 reunion with the cast of one of the best Christmas movies ever made, “Love Actually,” on ABC. If you did, you can stream it on Hulu. “Love Actually,” upon its opening on Nov. 26, 2003, didn’t exactly shake up the movie industry. It should be […]
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Thinking Things Through: The way we are now
Readjusting to life in public settings, Liz Soares ponders the way we are now in a state of somewhere between observant and on edge.
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On the Edge: The cutting of the ribbons
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are a reminder of the happy, bright future ahead for the living, as well as the shadows of the past, J.P. Devine writes.
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Reporting Aside: She fled Ukraine with only her cat and now just wants a work permit for Christmas
An English teacher and editor, Kristina Kovynieva, 29, fled her Ukraine home when the Russians attacked, eventually winding up at an Oakland home where she is acclimating to life in the U.S. with a host family, Amy Calder writes.
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‘The Wonder’ is a miracle of a film
This is the best piece of work you’ll see this year, perhaps any year yet, writes J.P. Devine.
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‘Julia’ changed the way America, and possibly the world, looked at food, especially French cuisine
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” — Julia Child Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams, on Aug. 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. The eldest of three children, at 6 feet 2 inches, Julia wasn’t the tallest of her siblings. Her sister was 6 feet 4 inches, and her […]
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Backyard Naturalist: November notes
From an apparition of August to crusty snow and brumal cold, the month of November revealed a season changing and a sense that time is standing still, Dana Wilde writes.