“Fred” the owl peers from the cardboard box he was transported in minutes before taking flight to freedom. The adolescent owl was returned to the general neighborhood in which he was found so he would best be able to return to his own territory. (Sun Journal photo by Andree Kehn) Donald Fournier, left, from Avian […]
2019
Posted inNews, Politics
Mills to outline her first state budget proposal before Legislature Feb. 11
Few details have emerged, Mills has vowed that her move to expand Medicaid, at an estimated cost of $50 million a year, will be funded without increasing taxes.
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Farmington selectmen approve $6.1 million budget
The budget now will head to voters at Town Meeting, scheduled for March 25.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lisbon lodge damaged by water leak
Tyler Golletti, treasurer of the Masonic Lodge in Lisbon Falls, on Thursday shows the faucet that froze and burst after the furnace failed this week. Golletti, who is a contractor, estimates that between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of water caused extensive damage to the second floor and the first floor ceiling, furniture and floor on […]
Posted inNews
Firm abandons plan to help endangered salmon on Penobscot
The owner of a dam in Milford determined that the system posed a “significant risk” to other species such as river herring.
Posted inBusiness, sj-web, Sports
Lewiston company’s helmet padding to be worn in Super Bowl LIII
Rick House, director of technology at Jones & Vining, is framed through an older-style football helmet Thursday afternoon at the company’s facility in Lewiston. A helmet featuring the company’s new, higher-protection padding rests in front of House. Jones & Vining makes the interior foam padding for Riddell’s SpeedFlex helmets, which will be worn Sunday by many of […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston businesses attend 2019 Chef Summit in Portland
PORTLAND — If Tom Ardia had attempted to open a speak-easy-style bar in downtown Lewiston 10 years ago, it would not have worked. Just seven years ago, when Forage Market first opened, it struggled to define itself as downtown foot traffic was sparse. But during a panel discussion at the 2019 Chef Summit on Thursday, […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Lewiston girls among first to join Boy Scouts
LEWISTON — Beginning Friday, the Boy Scouts of America will allow girls to join for the first time in the organization’s 109-year history. A group of girls from Lewiston will lead the charge. The six girls will make history Friday when they are among the first females nationwide to join Scouts BSA, which decided last […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Otisfield selectmen to discuss fuel tanks, sand shed
OTISFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will meet next week to discuss putting a structure over the fuel tanks outside the Town Office to prevent fuel from congealing. The regular board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building on Route 121. Anne Pastore, the town’s administrative assistant, said there have been a […]
Posted inbPlus, Life & Culture
In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Nick Stone of MacMahan Island. I TAKE GREAT COMFORT FROM THIS CAT By Nick Stone I take great comfort from this cat and since you ask — my reason’s that she goes about her business now sedately, and a little slow but with us […]