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News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Abbott Elementary’ back to school
If, while checking out this new sitcom, you suspect that there’s something familiar about it, you’d be right. Stay tuned. The players, starting with the star and show’s creator, the bubbly 32-year-old writer-creator Quinta Brunson, and the fast-moving cast that percolates around her, invite you into West Philadelphia’s Abbott Elementary, a comic oasis of learning […]
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Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: We don’t need to harp on it, but Waterville company finds the art in its work
Peter Carey and Jason Brann own PRO Moving Service in Waterville, and they do much more than move bulky things, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Letting life take its course
Preparing mentally for a third surgery in a year, Liz Soares reflects on fear of the unknown and coming out on the other side of making the right choice for mind and body.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Sign of the cross … A Netflix special
Thinking back to those times when you make the sign of the cross and enter into Virgo country, J.P. Devine reflects on the end of summer and the start of something new.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Waterville native’s children are found, but it’s a story without a happy ending
Robert Kelley died at 77 in August in a hotel room in rural North Dakota and a coroner there went to great lengths to find his next of kin, only to learn it wasn’t the outcome people may have hoped for, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Wasps and spiders
Watching a small wasp drag an immobile spider across the deck on a summer afternoon, Dana Wilde thinks of the underground chamber that awaits for the coming creature lifecycle.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Bad Sisters’: A second look
Yes, I did review “Bad Sisters” last week, and this is a second look. I rarely do “second looks,” but “Bad Sisters” annoyingly streams once a week on Fridays, and after watching the show on its next appearance, and reading my original copy, I realized how unfairly cursory it was. A second look at actor/writer […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: Then there was Sara
Running a lemonade stand in Waterville, Sara Johnson continues the deeply American tradition of earning a little money on the side, J.P. Devine writes.