Terence McManus asked, in his letter to the editor, (Sun Journal, June 7) to add context to the protests around the killing of George Floyd. The problem is that he really doesn’t understand context. So, as a SOP to his reasonableness, he states in his opening sentence that it was an “… inexcusable killing …” […]

It is with sadness I announce the cancellation of the Auburn Community Concert Band’s long-established outdoor concert series at Festival Plaza in Auburn, due to the current social restrictions related to COVID-19. This will be the first summer in 39 years the band has not presented weekly, free, Wednesday evening performances in downtown Auburn. On […]

The recent spectacle by the president in front of St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., brings to mind a passage in the novel “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott. The heroine, Rebecca, who has been kidnapped by Brian de Bois-Guilbert and taken to the castle of the Knights Templar (a Christian order of knights and financiers), […]

I really appreciated that the Sun Journal Maine’s 200th column, On This Date on June 6, primarily focused on Charles Norman Shay. What a remarkable man, clearly at the right place at the right time. I first noticed the touching photo of him on page 1 accompanying the story about D-Day. I was pleased to […]