AUBURN — Participating in the Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour, B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine,” B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft,” B-25 Mitchell “Tondelayo” bombers, P-51 Mustang “Toulouse Nuts” and P-40 Warhawk “Jaws” fighters, will fly into the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, for a visit through Friday, Sept. 27. This is […]
Steve Sherlock
Posted inEncore
Music for Mavis wraps up season with blues artist
Blues artist Mary Murphy will close out the Music for Mavis series in Turner.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
After 101 years, local World War I veteran receives his Purple Heart
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who has helped many veterans and their families apply for the Purple Heart, said it is the first time she has helped a World War I veteran’s family.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News
Scrapbook a record of Lisbon’s history during World War II
Newspaper clippings show the lives of soldiers and sailors from Lisbon, Lisbon Center and Lisbon Falls, including inductions, engagements, marriages and deaths.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: No, there will be no big infrastructure plan
Democrats running for president are vowing to bring high-speed internet to rural America. President Donald Trump campaigned on the same promise. It was to be part of his big infrastructure plan. But no, there will be no big infrastructure plan. Responding to the Democratic candidates’ reminder of a broken pledge, Trump’s former infrastructure adviser, D.J. […]
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Cal Thomas: Trump: Vote for me, or else
During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.” Never mind. The question for next year’s election is whether the insulter-in-chief can use the same tactic to win a second term. It depends on two […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Peter Bourgelias: Golden ignores obstruction in Mueller report
Jared Golden’s “Unity of the country must come first” is a misleading and superficial piece of writing that does not properly address the full ramifications of the Mueller report. The most glaring weakness in the op-ed is Rep. Golden’s glossing over of the entire second volume of the report, which investigates whether the President committed […]
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Austin Bay: China’s Great oppressor reality subverts its great power aspirations
Chinese President Xi Jinping boasts his nation will return to great power status before 2049. By great power Xi means return to unrivaled world power status, which his ethnic Han-centered reading of history assumes the Middle Kingdom enjoyed during its imperial golden age. By the way, it is no coincidence that 2049 will mark 100 […]
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Marc Thiessen: If El Paso is Trump’s fault, Dems are responsible for Dayton
WASHINGTON — As soon as authorities said they suspected the El Paso mass shooter was the author of a hate-filled, white-supremacist online manifesto, Democrats began blaming President Trump. “He is a racist,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “and we’ve seen the consequences of it.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Twitter about the president, “Your […]
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Gerard Decoteau: Unfit for office
Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. I firmly believe that without Russian interference, he would not have prevailed in the Electoral College. He wanted James Comey to give Michael Flynn a pass. In an attempt to obstruct justice in the Robert Mueller investigation, he fired Comey and tried to fire Mueller. He […]