AUGUSTA — The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands expects the popularity of its outdoor destinations to continue this spring, and urges guests to anticipate crowded parking areas and trailhead bottlenecks. The bureau broke its record for recreation visits during 2020. Despite the pandemic, the State Park system welcomed a […]
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Posted inCommunity, Connections
Foundation seeks women veterans to register service online
All those who register will have their names etched on the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.
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Posted inSun Spots
No-show credit card payment raises concern about late fee, credit rating
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to thank the woman who paid for my purchase when my credit card was declined at Walgreen’s in Norway on Wednesday, March 17. I promised to pay it forward and I will. What is with the U.S. Postal Service? For the second time in three months my mailed payment to […]
Posted inConnections
Vietnam War Veterans Day event set for March 29
The Auburn event is hosted by Honor Flight Maine and Central Maine Detachment 810.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The risk of inflation is real — and growing
The succession of government stimulus packages to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the broad supply of money in the United States from $15.5 trillion in February 2020 to a whopping $19.4 trillion in January. That is a record one-year increase, according to statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Biden’s billions will come on top of that.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
‘I’m so sorry that you and your teammates got mistreated’
A high school football team told adults they were spit on and called the n-word. Nothing changed until a player posted, ‘enough is enough!’
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Triangle Fire and the fight for $15
From the outset, the minimum wage was designed to be a living wage. Roosevelt had long championed the “change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment,” but he had to rely on voluntary compliance from industry.
Posted inBoston Celtics, Sports
Brown’s hot shooting carries Celtics past Magic
Jaylen Brown makes 10 of Boston’s 22 3-pointers and finishes with 34 points in a 112-96 victory.
Posted inSports
NCAA men’s basketball: Loyola Chicago dumps No. 1 Illinois
Three years after an unlikely run to the Final Four, the Ramblers are again making noise in the NCAA Tournament.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Week in photos: March 13-19, 2021
Favorite photos of the Sun Journal staff photographers from last week.