CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dave Foley, 48; Michael Stipe, 51; Patty Loveless, 54; Dyan Cannon, 74. Happy Birthday: Using your past experience and old connections will enable you to reach your goals this year. Something or someone unusual from your childhood will help you recognize what you should be doing. Change will be to […]
2011
Posted inDr. Roach
Acid reflux treatment and joint pain
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I take Zocor for cholesterol, Micardis for blood pressure and Dexilant for acid reflux (heartburn). When I wake each morning, my lower back, hip, knee, shoulder and ankle joints ache. I like to golf, but the day after, I can barely move from stiffness and pain. Recently I read that proton pump […]
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Posted inDear Abby
In-laws’ bad attitude tests limits of woman’s tolerance
DEAR ABBY: How does one live peacefully and get along with one’s in-laws? I understand that everyone has different ideas, morals, etc., and I feel we should all try to respect one another’s differences. However, my in-laws make it extremely difficult to spend time with them. How does one eat at the same table with […]
Posted inLetters
Coping with injustices
The Sun Journal’s Dec. 31 Encore article on Cheryl Hamilton and her solo performance, “Checkered Floors,” telling of her sexual assault and also of the challenges facing Somali refugees in Maine, is worthy of note. Many have endured injustices in Maine without presenting this to a jury or the public. Many have complained, then gone […]
Posted inLetters
Auburn’s dangerous deal
Auburn’s City Council is close to approving a proposal allowing stand-alone slaughterhouses in agricultural/resource protection zones. That would impact 50 percent of Auburn. Auburn zoning laws prohibit spot zoning. It is detrimental to the city. Allowing one exception opens doors to other spot zone requests. Changing the entire AG/RP district will circuitously accomplish spot zoning […]
Posted inLetters
Stand up for taxpayers
All those working in the private sector who got a snow day off on Dec. 27, raise your hands. Hmm, no hands. OK, now, let’s count hands for the state workers. Let’s see … thousands, maybe? All those in the private sector who had Jan. 1 off for New Year’s Day, raise your hands. A […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Employees take action against suspected shoplifter
FARMINGTON — Employees at Northern Lights Hearth and Sports shop on Route 2 and 4 used a forklift and tons of wood pellets to block a suspected shoplifter’s truck recently. Hours later, Joseph G. Atwood, 28, of Livermore Falls was issued a citation on a charge of stealing socks and a backpack from the business, […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Structure for town part of Eagle Scout project
INDUSTRY — A local teen has completed building a storage building near the town recycling center as part of his Eagle Scout project. When Jordan Williams, 17, and his father, Rick, went to the town site for a bucket of sand-salt for their home, it meant getting it from a precariously tall pile. Jordan thought […]
Posted inSun Spots
Traps needed for ice fishing derby
DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Auburn Lions Club will be hosting a pike ice fishing derby on Taylor Pond on Feb. 5. There will be a special area designated for kids. Our goal is to attract families who are new to ice fishing. We are looking for gently used ice fishing traps that can be used […]
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on Jan. 4, 2011
100 years ago,1911 The Calumets played their first basketball game on a home floor this season in Auburn Hall last evening and made good. The Fort McKinley team, their opponents, put up a hard fight but did not look like an experienced team. They had practically no team work and there were only two men […]