Maree ReMalia, center, leads a Bates Dance Festival class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through […]
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Lewiston police, ICE detain woman
Zera Samson, center, is detained by several law enforcement officers at the bus station on the corner of Bates and Oak streets in Lewiston on Friday. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — A woman from Tanzania was detained at the Greyhound bus stop on Bates Street for about 45 minutes Friday while Lewiston police and an […]
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Mt. Blue educator from Jay to receive national award for teaching excellence
FARMINGTON — A longtime language arts teacher at Mt. Blue High School is one of 46 public school educators to receive a national award. The NEA Foundation named Dan Ryder of Jay as a recipient of the California Casualty Award for Teaching Excellence. He is to receive the award during the foundation’s Salute to […]
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Noah LePage's film premieres at 2018 Maine International Film Festival
A short film written and directed by a Mt. Blue High School alumnus is an official selection of the 2018 Maine International Film Festival. “Elysia” tells the story of a young woman who spends one day in the afterlife trying to reconnect with her mother. The world premiere of the film was held last Saturday […]
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Renovations underway at Wilton tannery site
WILTON — Renovations have begun at the former tannery building on Routes 2 and 4 for phase one of transforming it into a business park. Co-owner John Black said an 11,500-square-foot renovation of the front of the building is underway at Wilson Stream Business Park. “The goal is to have a 24,000-square-foot building shelled in […]
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No more harness racing at Oxford Fair
OXFORD — The Oxford County Fair has eliminated its long tradition of harness racing from this year’s schedule, but a state official said it will have no impact on the licensing of the Oxford Casino. The vote by the Oxford County Agricultural Society board of trustees to remove harness racing was made for financial reasons, […]
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Marshall Tucker Band to play Oxford County Fair
OXFORD — The Oxford County Fair has booked the multi-award-winning Marshall Tucker Band as its main act this fall. The free concert at the fairgrounds on Pottle Road is to begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15. Jackie Young, president of the Oxford Agricultural Society, said the same anonymous donor who stepped up six years […]
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Stormy Daniels to bring strip act to Maine
It looks like Stormy Daniels is blowing into town. A marquee at a Portland adult nightclub says the porn star – who alleges she’s had sex with President Trump – will be appearing for two days in September. A woman answering the phone at PT’s Showclub on Riverside Drive confirmed that Stormy Daniels, whose real […]
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Bruce Poliquin backs GOP bid to smother carbon tax
Maine lawmakers split this week on a U.S. House vote to condemn the idea of a carbon tax to fight climate change, though no serious effort has been made to impose it — and there’s no chance the Republican-controlled Congress or President Donald Trump would approve. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a two-term GOP lawmaker from […]
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FBI has tape of Trump, Cohen discussing paying Playboy model
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him, The New York Times reported Friday. The president’s current personal lawyer confirmed the conversation and said it showed Trump did nothing wrong, according to the Times. Citing […]