SOUTH PARIS — Oxford County 4-H is offering a virtual February Sticker Workshop in partnership with Bethel Area Arts & Music (BAAM). Youth will learn how to hand draw their own stickers as well as see a demonstration on digital drawing and creating a small business. The workshop is free to attend, and materials will […]
Alex Lear
Staff Writer
Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Richard Forcier: County commissioners make mask issue political
In response to the Sun Journal’s Jan. 21 story — “Divided Androscoggin commissioners bristle over masks, COVID protocols” — these so-called “defenders of liberty” shame themselves with such ignorant public comments. This is not a political problem, but they would make it one. Our country’s founders always balanced individual liberty with a community’s obligation to […]
Posted inConnections
Project Canopy community assistance grants available
AUGUSTA — Up to $100,000 is available to Maine’s local governments, municipalities, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations through Project Canopy’s community assistance grant program. Project Canopy – Maine’s community forestry program, a program of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s (DACF) Maine Forest Service – has awarded community forestry project grants totaling more than […]
Posted inConnections
United Way to host Webb Lake snowshoe walk
WELD — A snowshoe walk will be hosted by United Way of the Tri-Valley from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Webb Lake unit of Mt. Blue State Park. The walk will begin at the Webb Lake unit gate off the West Shore Road and make a two-mile loop over unplowed park […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Paul Baribault: High time for Electoral College to go
The majesty of our country’s still-young journey into the freedom of democratic rule (small d), was fractured but not shattered in the Jan. 6 storming of our Capitol. But the ignoble supporters of the past President — “Where is f….. Pelosi?” “Hang Mike Pence!” — who had been electorally but not popularly voted into office […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: No, there won’t be unity
President Biden can do his part to lower the temperature of our politics, and raise the tone, simply by not stirring the pot every day the way Trump did and by honoring the norms his predecessor cast aside. This won’t be transformative, but there actually might be some unity around the proposition that it will be a welcome change.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Clem Bechard: Anger in today’s political climate
What am I so angry about? Some friends of mine actually asked me that question. With all the crap given to anyone in line with President Trump ? They wonder why I am so angry. They impeach my president twice because of pure hate. They call us Nazis, white supremacists, bigots and racists, and wonder […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Learning from history
We should remember the past so we can learn from the past. We do not learn from the past by lionizing its wrongdoers, its traitors.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: America no longer lives in an unpresidented time
Presidents matter. Apparently, we needed a reminder. Sadly, we got one.