“Lobster lovers feeling the pinch of high prices” “Feel the pinch!” I get it! Because lobsters have pincers. Ha! That’s a good one! I am laughing out loud. But as far as the craving for lobster, count me out. I lost my taste for them a few years ago when it occurred to me — […]
2021
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Coral Howe: Suffering the fallout of the hot real estate market
We’re in for a long, hot summer, with a new kind of pandemic on the horizon — homelessness. The sooner we can collectively fight to house each other rather than jump on a juicy deal and cast people out into the streets, the better.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Carole Richards: Media needs to dump Trump
I write once again to say the media needs to let Trump sink into his self-made swamp along with his pardoned reptile friends. We do not need to hear news reports of his rallies or reports of his opinions about our new president. Enough of his ranting, raving and ignorance — he is no longer […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Something is wrong
I believe in capitalism. I believe that when you incentivize earning, you incentivize risk-taking, innovation and hard work.
But I also believe something is wrong when CEO pay rose by about 1,000% between 1978 and 2018, while worker pay edged up just 12%.
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Driver crashes into parked car on Lisbon Street, charged with OUI
The Lewiston driver was taken to the hospital for a potential drug overdose after being charged, according to police.
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Buckfield graduates reflect on their own toughness, resilience and close-knit town
The Buckfield Junior-Senior High School Class of 2021 graduated 33 students on Saturday.
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Six stand-out locations for trail running in Maine
Three ultramarathon runners share some of their favorite training locations in Maine.
Posted inPerspective
Photo Album: Final press run at the Sun Journal
On May 31, the 41-year-old Goss Urbanite offset press printed the newspaper for the last time in the Sun Journal’s Lewiston building. The press operations moved to South Portland.
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Face Time: Andrew Sharp, Bradbury Mountain’s spring hawk watcher
Fresh out of graduate school with a master’s degree in ecology from Utah State University, Andrew Sharp was figuring out his next steps when he found a job as Bradbury Mountain’s official hawk watcher for the 2021 migration season this past spring. The Chesterfield, Virginia, native just wrapped up a three-month, six-days-a-week stint perched atop […]