DEAR DR. ROACH: Why would thyroid medication no longer be effective after 20 years of taking it? I was diagnosed in 1995 with Graves’ disease, quite severe. I was treated with radioactive iodine and eventually put on Synthroid, 100 mcg. I have taken the same dosage once a day ever since. Six months ago, my […]
2018
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Briefly: City
Farmer’s market open Tuesdays AUBURN — The City of Auburn has announced the return of the Auburn Farmer’s Market for the summer from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Oct. 2 in the Rolly’s Diner parking lot, 87 Mill St. History Barn open house Aug. 4 NEW GLOUCESTER — New Gloucester Historical Society will have […]
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Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Stanton Bird Club to lead bird walks in August
LEWISTON — The Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston and Auburn has three events planned in August. The first is Wednesday, Aug. 8, to Pineland Farms in New Gloucester. Participants will gather at 8 a.m. by The Market and Welcome Center at the entrance from Morse Road off Route 231. The walk will end about 11 […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Rumford Falls Times, sj-web, The Bethel Citizen, The Franklin Journal, Well Done
Well Done
The following local students have recently been named to post-secondary schooling academic lists of achievement: Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts — Chloe Hedrich of New Gloucester; Alexander Cobb, Gray; Olivia Paione, Auburn; Morgan Knowlton, Auburn; Kory Norcross, Auburn; and Ladan Iman, Auburn, have been named to the dean’s list. — Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont — Emily M. Martin, Nicole […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
China’s imperialist ventures in Africa
It’s time the world recognized sub-Saharan Africa’s newest economic and military imperialist: Communist party-ruled China. China’s immense economy needs natural resources and markets to continue generating wealth. Sub-Saharan Africa offers both — rich mineral deposits in particular — so China is there, with money and weapons. Since China’s major mineral and oil companies are state-owned […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Kudos to Sen. Collins
Is the Sun Journal so hard up for guest columns that there is room for Virginia’s Bill Riggs of “Americans for Prosperity,” an organization funded by the Koch brothers? Perhaps it was a paid advertisement? This is not Wisconsin. As a Mainer, I am not interested in what the Koch brothers think, nor what their […]
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The hypocrisy of the Democratic Russia hawks
WASHINGTON — With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predecessors were able to accomplish: He has turned Democrats into Russia hawks. A few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan addressed the 1992 Republican National Convention and said: “I heard […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
In support of Ned Claxton
When I began talking with people at the beginning of this political season, Ned Claxton’s name kept coming up as someone to meet. Word was that he is a kind and reasonable person looking to make positive changes at the state level. I was reserved at first, knowing that people are often not who they […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Rockwood Norton Berry
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Rockwood Norton Berry, 99, passed away peacefully Thursday, July 5, at Spring Haven Retirement, Winter Haven, Fla. Predeceased by his wife, Louise (Garland) Berry; sons David and Richard Berry; and brothers Howard, Ronald and Theodore Berry, Rock is survived by daughter, Katherine, and her husband, Curt Oestreich, of Leesburg, Fla.; daughter, Cynthia […]
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Clarice Katz Aronowitz
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — “May you stay forever young.” Claire passed peacefully in Delray Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 25, after a seven-month illness at the age of 92. She was born to Isadore and Minnie Katz in Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived her early years in Brooklyn, attended Manual Training High School and met and married Martin […]