Your ad here OK, so there’s a debate raging over whether or not we should allow corporations to buy naming rights to an athletic field in Lewiston. As far as I’m concerned, this proposal doesn’t go far enough. Why stop at naming the field when there are so many other opportunities to advertise at local […]

The way I see it, there are two kinds of people: normal folks like me who can’t so much as blink properly until they’ve had a minimum of two cups of coffee to start the day. And you mutant freaks of nature who skip coffee in the morning in favor of something outlandish like sweet […]

Y2K 2.0 What, the Internet is still here? I thought that DNSChanger virus was supposed to wipe most of us right off the Web. Well, huh. Makes me kind of rueful about posting all those photos the day before it was to happen. Oh, well. Live and learn. I’m wearing a leather mask in most […]

You people know I’m not one to say “I told you so.” Unless I happened to be right about something, which happens every 17 years like clockwork. Remember that time I predicted you’d lose your hair? You see how that turned out, don’t you? But anyhoo, last week I predicted that with the Fourth of […]

Another day in paradise Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m. Two dozen motorcycles, each with EXTREMELY LOUD and quite-likely illegal pipes, go roaring up a quiet residential street in Lewiston. Sleeping babies twitch in their cribs and begin to wail. Old ladies clutch their chests and drop tea cups to the floor. A woman walking with […]

Good morning, layabouts. I don’t mean to pee on your fireworks, but have you noticed the date? It’s the Fourth of July, summer’s midlife crisis and what have you done with your summer? Have you been camping yet? Hiked to the top of Mount Washington? Taken the kids fishing? Do you even have prospects for […]

Milestone Welp. After 18 years of reporting, it finally happened: I was finally able to lead a story with a sentence containing the words “sea urchin” and “gonads.” (See Thursday morning’s gem.) When you’re a young reporter, the old-timers always tell you it will happen someday, if you work hard and stay patient. In the […]

I’m looking across the table and it occurs to me that you don’t have a steaming mound of outrage to go with your French toast and eggs. I’m here to help. It begins last Thursday when animal rescue stud Rich Burton got a call from a rattled older woman with a problem. At first glance, […]

N00b Another city manager in Auburn? I can’t afford to send another bouquet of flowers, new guy. Please enjoy this complimentary Sun Journal pencil sharpener with my regards. And please have my key to the city ready by the end of the week. It’s a tradition around here, in case you haven’t been told. See […]