In light of COVID-19’s already major impact on citizens’ incomes, towns’ local revenues and state funding revenues to municipalities, we insist that the school board take another serious look at its pre-pandemic proposed budget and reduce it to keep the budget at the 2019-2020 level, except for contract considerations. For the next couple of years […]

The voters of Maine Senate District 22 need a strong advocate in Augusta. Martha Poliquin will be the people’s voice. Poliquin has devoted herself to the community, through volunteer work with Scouting groups, Literacy Volunteers, the performing arts and on the Lisbon School Committee, just to name a few. She believes strongly in public education, […]

May we remember, at this time in America, the direction that was presented to the nation to address the evil of discrimination against people of color during the 20th century. May we remember that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. presented non-violent activity to address the evil of discrimination with its accompanying physical violence. May we […]

My dad, Donald Gosselin, was being honored June 18 at the Veterans Park in Lewiston at the foot of the falls (photo, Sun Journal, June 19). When reaching Main Street from Lincoln Street, traffic was at a standstill. As drivers patiently idled (thank you), police ushered the motorcade forward with lights flashing. Construction workers removed […]

Mark LaFlamme’s column in the Sunday (June 21) Sun Journal was so well done. It is too easy for all of us to allow ourselves to be coerced into believing or following whatever is being currently presented in the media and culture, without any thought about whether it is right or wrong, or good for […]

I am writing to endorse Jennifer Blastow for District 72. Blastow is a zealous and intelligent woman and she will be an advocate for all of Maine. She spends her time enjoying the outdoors. Her experience trying to combat climate change is an inspiration. She is a nurse practitioner in the Oxford Hills area. She […]