Dana Wilde: What do spiders know, and how do they know it?

While animal instinct plays a role in behavior, spiders make choices that suggest more complex minds at work, Dana Wilde writes.

J.P. Devine Podcast: It is not criminal to help your fellow man

J.P. Devine: ‘Can I have some water?’ he asked

Something happened in Georgia this week that has J.P. Devine remembering the magical gift of water and its powerful lesson this Easter season.

Amy Calder: With Easter comes hope

Easter in the 1950s and '60s meant donning pastel-colored dresses, patent leather shoes and bonnets and listening to mysterious sermons in church, Amy Calder writes.

J.P. Devine Series Review: ‘Collateral’

Crime mystery provides multi-layered plot filled with Britain’s best film actors.

‘Hacks’ filled with heart tugs, romance, warm layers, good writing

Liz Soares: Power of literature in dark times

Reading constantly has worked wonders during the pandemic and helped make personal connections, Liz Soares writes.

J.P. Devine Podcast: After months of J.P.’s friends needling him to get the vaccine, he finally has

J.P. Devine: No panic in ‘Needle Park’

After getting a COVID vaccination sooner than expected, J.P. Devine moves onto the bigger question of whether to have a glass of Stella with dinner.

Rookie central Maine Newspapers reporters recall their own college pandemic experience

Greg Levinsky of the Morning Sentinel and Emily Duggan of the Kennebec Journal graduated college during the pandemic.