For five successful years, the all-volunteer Friends of the Library Shop located downtown has benefited the Skowhegan Free Public Library.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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In Vassalboro, harder times means rising need for Thanksgiving boxes | Column
At R.L. Mercantile & Trading Post, Brea Willette teaches about food security and reaches out a helping hand to those in need.
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Good gourd: Celebrating all things pumpkin | Column
Sunday, Oct. 26, is National Pumpkin Day.
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50 years later, lessons learned in Skowhegan still resonate | Column
The immersive experience of playing Anne Sullivan more than a half century ago at Skowhegan Area High School taught an invaluable lesson.
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In her Waterville hometown, she has no home | Column
Suffering from mental illnesses, 50-year-old Jessica LeClair says it’s hard maneuvering homelessness.
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A Waterville native and a stolen Picasso | Column
In 1969, a Picasso painting was stolen from a Boston airport and Whitcomb Rummel Jr. relates his family’s role in its theft and return.
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Waterville man is ready for the most exciting time of his life | Column
A lifetime of experience has readied Walter Dale for what’s next.
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She’s worked at Waterville McDonald’s 50 years | Column
LouAnn Lindie, 66, started working at the restaurant on Main Street when she was 16 and never left.
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Mercer woman uses her art to benefit animals | Column
Cindy Bolduc creates crafts and places them in a cabinet by the road for free but notes that if people want to leave a donation, she will give it to the Somerset Humane Society.
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In Waterville and China, a happy break from browntail moths | Column
It’s awfully nice to be able to hang clothes outdoors again since the browntail moth scourge has seemingly paused, Amy Calder writes.