Single working mother Kathy Cooper is being evicted from the house she has rented for four years and has searched in vain for a place she can afford for her and her four children, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Cooking on the road to recovery
While recovering from a second knee replacement surgery, Liz Soares mulls how cooking has been an important hobby in her household.
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Bad Sisters’ like ‘Little Women’ from purgatory
Pay attention now, I’m not going to go through these names more than once. There’s Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) and her four sisters: Eva (Sharon Horgan), the level headed eldest; Ursula (Eva Birthistle), a nurse and mother; Bibi (Sarah Greene), the one-eyed plotter of the bunch; and Becka (Eve Hewson), Rocker Bono’s daughter in case you’re […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: What’s your sign?
Mulling the meaning of astrology signs, J.P. Devine remembers the time his life changed on the spot.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: After wave of grief, Waterville woman urges others to ‘reach out to the people that love you’
Denise Dutil looks forward to the day the new skatepark at Green Street Park in Waterville’s South End bears the name of her son, Dave Dutil Jr., who died by suicide in 2016, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Breaking’ gives us a Denzel-ish performance by John Boyega, J.P. Devine says
All Brian Brown-Easley wanted on July 7, 2017, was $892.34, the amount that some far away cog in the rusty wheels of the Dept. of Veteran Affairs had, for some reason, withheld from his last disability check. Brian (played here by a remarkable John Boyega, with a hint of Denzel-ish ferocity aboard) at this time […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Of time and toads
Exploring the outdoors with a 5-year-old, Dana Wilde navigates the wild frontier of a child’s wonder and all that’s discovered along the way.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Ties and tablecloths
Pondering the meaning of ‘fine dining,’ J.P. Devine realizes the truth is in the details … and who you date.