LEWISTON — Kora Shriners held their annual election and installation of officers on Jan. 8, and elected Brent Tanguay of Lewiston to serve as Kora’s potentate for 2021. In a COVID-19-compliant ceremony, Tanguay was installed as many Kora nobles, family and friends watched via Zoom. “It is a tremendous honor to serve as Kora’s potentate […]
Alex Lear
A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
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Amy Partridge-Barber: Energy project helps companies, not Maine
A friend once said, “the more ads you see for something, the worse it is for you.” They were talking about junk food, but I could say the same for Central Maine Power/Avangrid, who’ve spent $16 million to sell us on the New England Clean Energy Connect, a project Mainers know precious little about. NECEC […]
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SeniorsPlus offers variety of classes for February
LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus has announced its Online Education Center classes for February. Due to the pandemic and CDC guidelines, all classes are held virtually. Classes and workshops are free, unless noted. Register by emailing [email protected] or calling 207-795-4010 or 1-800-427-1241. Classes Banking in 2021: From 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Zoom, instructor, Kendra […]
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Rich Lowry: ‘Free speech for me, but not for thee’
Journalists have lurched from finding a threat to freedom to the press in every criticism of reporters and news outlets by former President Donald Trump to themselves calling for unwelcome media organizations to be shut down.
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In rebuttal: Don Prince: Justice needs to be served to Trump
I would like to respond to Mary Jones’ Jan. 20 letter. She emphasizes the “power of the word,” but overlooks how that power was misused by our former president. He called reporters “enemies of the people.” He called a peaceful Black protester a “son of a bitch.” After the racist Charlotte “rally” resulting in the […]
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Service projects, events to celebrate Catholic Schools Week
PORTLAND — Activities organized to celebrate the fun, faith and family that define Maine’s Catholic schools highlight the Catholic Schools Week schedules across the state on Sunday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, but teachers and administrators hope that it’s the ways in which the students will give back that will provide the most […]
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James Cogan: Media is ‘prime pillar’ of freedom, democracy
Far from being the enemy of the people, the news media is a prime pillar of freedom and democracy. When the Sun Journal reports facts, it intends to present accurate information and generally succeeds. Likewise the information arms of the Washington Post, New York Times, Portland Press Herald, the Globe, the AP, the BBC, PBS, […]
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Francophone women’s group meets online
LEWISTON — The Center for Wisdom’s Women invites all French-speaking women to join the community French conversation group now meeting remotely on Zoom at 5 p.m. every Wednesday. It is intended to be a (remote) gathering space for women to speak French together, and through doing so, share topics related to womanhood, culture, family and […]