Today’s library is a place where people come together and interact, or just be themselves among others, writes Liz Soares.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Amy Calder: May is just a breath away
After all the April rains, we can look forward to sun and May flowers.
J.P. Devine: The world of ‘stuff’ where guys are supposed to have an edge
“Guy stuff” is items you find in a hardware store that, until recently, J.P had the advantage of, with help from his street friends.
Dana Wilde: The birds are back in town
Perennially, Dana Wilde writes, questions abound about what our feathered friends are saying as their songs fill woods.
J.P. Devine: An Easter morning only the stones remember
There are mornings that stick to our eyes like the pennies the old Irish put on the eyes of the dead, J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Public’
Director Emilio Estevez sprinkles comic and tragic snapshots of the lost who surround him like confetti, J.P. Devine writes.
Liz Soares: Remembering when it was important to ‘look nice’
Dressing down seems like a trend that is here to stay, writes Liz Soares.
Amy Calder: In search of a fence post, we buy a fence
After a fruitless effort to find a round post to fix a fence, Amy Calder and her husband wind up purchasing a whole new fence instead.
J.P. Devine: Pondering the women running for president
The Waterville writer finds all of them to be scary, brilliant, neat, handsome, fierce, honest liberal Democrats with jaw-dropping, breathtaking life stories and political resumes, and each deserving of your vote should you choose to vote for them.
Dana Wilde: Maine’s fractal coast
Nature appears to be fractal through and through, mirroring itself at every turn and nook, writes Dana Wilde.