The cleaners at restaurants seem to have less time to chat with customers and tend to their chores like quiet ghosts until opportunity beckons, write J.P. Devine.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
Dana Wilde: Slow changes in climate build to reckoning
The Earth’s climate is changing, whether you believe it or not, and so is the moral climate, Dana Wilde writes.
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Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State
Emily Higginbotham: It’s my birthday, and I’ll freak out if I want to
It’s not a matter of turning 24 that’s bothersome; it’s letting the years go by without living life to the fullest, writes Emily Higginbotham.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns
Amy Calder: The 100-year legacy of Waterville’s Castonguay Square
While Waterville Creates!, the city, Colby College and residents will have the opportunity to redesign the park, one thing that shouldn’t be changed is its name, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
First impressions captured in a drawer full of snapshots
Meeting your significant other’s relatives while in character from a play you’re appearing in can lead to some interesting reactions, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Liz Soares: End of school year a reminder of turmoil 50 years ago
A momentous school year left a lasting impression and questions about what was happening to the world, Liz Soares writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Op-Eds
Amy Calder: Where do you start when you’re down and out?
Although Clifford Perkins works hard, he leaves when he gets stressed out and now sleeps in the woods at Head of Falls; but he does know the first thing he needs: insurance, writes Amy Calder.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State
J.P. Devine: Once upon a garden that reverted to the yard
Enemy country now, loaded with ticks, not to mention legions of mosquitoes, surrendered now to nocturnal denizens, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State
A diary of spring 2018
From 7-foot high snowbanks to dandelions, the slow dawning of spring has come after a paralyzing winter, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State, Schools and Education
Revival of Waterville’s Panther Post deviates refreshingly from trend of student newspapers’ disappearance
Student newspapers provide an important service — and we should support them, Emily Higginbotham writes.