Kevin Juskewitch has a little bit of everything in his collection of Lewiston knickknacks and novelties: a Bates Mill bucket, felt pennants, an old Kora Temple fez and a Peck’s store shoehorn.

One of the most curious pieces: Lewiston brand cigarettes.

Juskewitch says he spotted his friend smoking them one day and asked for the empty pack.

He wasn’t sure where they came from, but he thought it was neat.

A quick Google search revealed the cigarettes are part of the Smokin Joes line by the Tuscarora Indian Nation – out of where?

Lewiston, N.Y.

– Kathryn Skelton
Haunted? Still a mystery

So, was Clifford Roy’s former Tall Pines apartment really haunted? Looks like we’ll never know.

Roy contacted the Sun Journal last October with news that the Sci-Fi show “Ghost Hunters” had taped an episode in his apartment, a place he and his family claimed was filled with unexplainable groans and voices, with a potential history of devil worship in the basement.

A case ripe for the plucky Rhode Island plumbers by day, paranormal researchers by night. Members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society filmed and visited over the summer.

But when the season wrapped up in December, the Lewiston episode had never aired. That actually happened in a few locations, according to an e-mail exchange with TAPS co-founder Grant Wilson.

“We filmed an episode there but, like many other cases we filmed, it wasn’t included. I don’t know if they have any intention of ever airing it,” he said.

The second season of “Ghost Hunters” started filming in January.

And the city hasn’t been altogether forgotten. According to the TAPS Web site, the 2005 New England Ghost Conference will be held at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston on Oct. 22. Wilson wasn’t sure whether TAPS would attend.

“It all depends on the schedule,” he said, “but it would be fun.”

– Kathryn Skelton

Hockey fan? Prove it

The first question posed to Roger Gagnon was this: Are you a hockey fan?

It was an insipid question. Gagnon was sitting in good seats at a Maineiacs game with his wife, Sue. Each of them wore junior hockey jerseys. It was an hour before game time, but the pair was already watching the ice.

Are you a fan?

Duh.

This hockey couple holds season tickets to the Maineiacs and that’s not enough. They follow the team when it plays on the road, too. The Gagnons love their hockey.

That alone is enough to convince anyone of their enthusiasm for the game, but there’s more. Sitting inside the remodeled Colisee, Sue pointed to her right where clots of people were shuffling around their seats.

“We met right there,” Sue Gagnon said. “Section 21, the top row, middle of the aisle.”

“38 years ago,” her husband added.

Their relationship was born in a hockey rink and the marriage thrived there nearly four decades later. That’s commitment, to the wedding vows and to the sport of hockey.

– Mark LaFlamme