Thinking Things Through: Learning a second language late in life

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Published
January 18, 2023

Thinking Things Through: Learning a second language late in life

Liz Soares has been practicing French every day for the past five months or so, measuring success one syllable at a time.
Published
January 13, 2023

Michael G. Seamans: Life on Waterville island featured hard living, and comfort to those in need

Over the course of several months, Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans captured images of people living at a homeless encampment along the Kennebec River, and came to learn his assumptions about them were wrong.
Published
January 4, 2023

Reporting Aside: ‘Devastation visible everywhere’

Covering the ice storm of 1998 in the Waterville area seemed like being a war zone, Amy Calder writes.
Published
January 3, 2023

On the Edge: The ice Maine cometh

Columnist J.P. Devine recalls the exact moment everything stopped and the ice storm forced them to seek shelter.
Published
November 6, 2022

On the edge: A shot for flag and country

J.P. Devine recalls hearing war stories from a grizzled old Marine before deciding to join the Air Force and chart his own course as a veteran whose beat still goes on.
Published
November 2, 2022

Thinking Things Through: The amazing power of habit

Daily walking and writing habits have brought many benefits, Liz Soares writes.
Published
June 14, 2022

Mark LaFlamme: How to get elected by doing nothing

Street Talk: 'Vote for LaFlamme,' you'll see on campaign signs everywhere. 'He doesn't know how to do ANYTHING!'
Published
November 5, 2021

Amy Calder: We fretted over Thurston, not that it mattered to him

Thurston, a 4-year-old feline, didn't show much gratitude after his owners sought the care of a vet for a troubling infection, Amy Calder writes.
Published
October 29, 2021

Amy Calder: Beware the ghosts and goblins on a Halloween far different from years past

Decades ago, costumes and many other things were far simpler in Skowhegan, when children took to the streets with their pillowcases to collect candy, Amy Calder writes.
Published
December 20, 2020

J.P. Devine: The lady in white

This Christmas, as thousands of nurses and doctors in blue scrubs hold the hands of the millions of the dying, J.P. Devine is thinking of his mother in her starched white dress and cap, bringing a cupcake home.