2023 – Page 2710 – Lewiston Sun Journal

Poland school senior named 2023’s Distinguished Young Woman of Maine

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023

Emma Moreau has been named this year’s Distinguished Young Woman of Maine 2023. The DYW showcase was held Jan. 6 at the L/A Community Little Theater in Auburn. Moreau is a senior at Poland Regional High School, where she is the vice president of her class, a National Honor Society member and the treasurer of […]

Connections

Gray native will be 2023 Miss Maine Teen in August national pageant

January 27, 2023January 20, 2023

National U.S. Miss Maine Teen 2023 Trinity Bean, a 17-year-old junior at Gray-New Gloucester High School and a native of Gray, is representing the state as the 2023 Miss Maine Teen in the National U.S. Pageant. The pageant is scheduled to take place in August in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Bean is competing for the title […]

Connections

New Gloucester student makes University of Iowa dean’s list

January 27, 2023January 20, 2023

OWA CITY, Iowa — Jobin Terranova of New Gloucester has been named to the 2022 fall semester dean’s list at the University of Iowa. Terranova, a first-year student in Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is majoring in English and creative writing. Dean’s list status was earned by 2,427 first-year undergraduates during the 2022 […]

Community, Connections

AARP Maine accepting Community Challenge grant applications

January 27, 2023January 20, 2023

PORTLAND — AARP Maine invites local eligible organizations and governments across the country to apply for the 2023 AARP Community Challenge grant program. Grants fund quick-action projects help communities become more livable in the long-term by improving public spaces, transportation, housing, civic engagement, and diversity and inclusion. Now in its seventh year, the program is […]

Letters, Opinion

Susan Dorman: U.S. legislators need to be good taxation stewards

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

For justice, let’s ask U.S. legislators to be good stewards of taxation. I’ve been reading about what Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell calls “the Orwellian name of ‘Family And Small Business Tax Payer Protection Act.’” (“First order of business for the GOP House? Defunding the (tax) police,” Sun Journal, Jan. 11). Apparently the labyrinth of […]

Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills

Photo Album: Maine left with a heavy, wet mess to clean up

by Carl Natale January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

The storm came in the form of snow early Wednesday night. By Thursday morning what most people found in their yards was mostly slush, ice or some other messy slop.