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    July 29, 2020

    Streaming series to bring classic theater to your home

    Theater at Monmouth

  • Published
    July 29, 2020

    Travel series continues with ‘An insider’s Guide to Southern Midcoast Maine’ at Camden library

    Cory King will give an online presentation called “An Insider’s Guide to Southern Midcoast Maine” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Camden Public Library. This is the second program in the library’s Maine travel talk series which explores destinations within a couple hours drive of Camden. The program will be hosted on […]

  • Published
    July 29, 2020

    LA Arts presents virtual Art Walk L-A

    LEWISTON – The next “virtual” Art Walk L-A happens Friday, July 31, 2020 on www.laarts.org/artwalk/, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram and includes visual arts, music, prose poetry, and more. Featured works include “Celestial Checkpoint,” new music by Portland-based composer Zak Taillon; “Fly Me to the Moon,” a new digital rendering by Lewiston-based artist J Anthony Fiori; […]

  • Published
    July 29, 2020

    Looking Back on July 29

    100 Years Ago: 1920 Traffic officer Tim Walsh has a circus act of his own at Union Square. His unending supply of peanuts has attracted several doves, a number of which are now so tame that they will alight on his hands. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Ist Lt. Mary Ellen Morgan, Lisbon, who was commissioned […]

  • Published
    July 28, 2020

    Looking Back on July 28

    100 Years Ago: 1920 Among the local collections of relics of earlier days few are more interesting than that of Rev. and Mrs. N. G. French, 123 Winter street, Auburn. Included in this is a hat worn by Mr. French’s great grandfather, Capt.Cadwalader F. Jones, in the War of 1812. Consulting the family Bible it […]

  • Published
    July 27, 2020

    Looking Back on July 27

    100 Years Ago: 1920 As exclusively told in the Lewiston Journal several days ago, the United Last Company of Auburn, successor to the Fitz Brothers’ Last Company, has purchased a tract of thirteen acres  in the Strawberry Avenue district It would be an ideal place for a factory, altho no plans are announced. The deed […]

  • Published
    July 25, 2020

    Looking Back on July 25

    100 Years Ago: 1920 Auburn public library opens Wednesday after extensive alterations both inside and outside. The children’s rooms are especially attractive. 50 Years Ago: 1970 A special meeting of the Auburn School Committee will be held Monday night to clean up a few pending items before School Supt. Lewis Webber finally completes his duties […]

  • Published
    July 24, 2020

    Filler in meds is not the cause of reader’s symptoms

    DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a question about excipients, something you discussed in a recent column about thyroid medication. Twice in my life, I took Celebrex for orthopedic pain. The episodes were about five years apart. Both times, I suffered severe liver disfunction, turned yellow, lost weight and had dark urine and abnormal ALT, AST […]

  • Published
    July 24, 2020

    Looking Back on July 24

    100 Years Ago: 1920 A picture taken from “King Spruce,” a novel by Holman F. Day, is to be shown in the Empire theater on Friday and Saturday, This is the first picturization of a novel by the widely known Maine author, who for years was on the staff of the  Lewiston Journal in Lewiston. […]

  • Published
    July 23, 2020

    Insomnia, COVID complicate treatment of depression

    DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an almost 69-year-old man in generally good health. Until the pandemic, I exercised regularly, but with Pilates studios closed I have only been walking. I have always been troubled with insomnia and have tried every sleep aid — both prescription and nonprescription — to no avail. That was until my […]