I’m an untraditional student at the University of Southern Maine, and I’m also a mother of a 10 month old. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, courses were done remotely last year, but as the world has returned to a new normal state, I was tasked with finding childcare for this fall when classes resumed in person. […]

I support Carl Sheline, candidate for mayor of Lewiston. I have known him for over five years, and know his belief in Lewiston. Carl has ideas about continuing to invest in the economic development of the community, to attract new businesses and help current ones thrive, about cleaning up the graffiti and making our green […]

Too often, Auburn city leadership has taken the wrong path. Too many are beholden to outmoded ideas, retrograde trends, and regressive policies that make life more challenging and more expensive. From special interests, which organize to amplify niche agendas, to the sad institutional inertia of politics, as usual-moderate, pragmatic perspectives are drowned out by political […]

I write in response to the Sept. 19 article by Colin Woodard, “Monuments to notorious people are coming down and being renamed. What about Cumberland?” What’s next? Are we about ready to change names of our counties and towns? If so, we should start using names of fruits, nuts and vegetables to be safe. Cal […]

I would like to thank the city of Auburn for a very fast road patch. We live on a dirt road, but the first 100 feet is tar. Where the tar meets Route 4 was a couple pot holes that were getting bigger each week. I called the city Friday, Sept. 17. They came and […]

Reading the account in the Sept. 23 Sun Journal of the acquittal of the young Auburn man who shot a father of five in the back, not once but twice, one wonders at the verdict. One also wonders at a question begged — what was this person doing with a Glock pistol ready to use […]

In response to Jaime Beaulieu’s letter (“Question 1 is undemocratic,” Sept. 23) concerning the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, this individual fails to acknowledge that this controversial question should have been voted on by the people of Maine. Petitions overwhelmingly signed by voters was supposed to be voted on last year, but was thrown […]

The New England Clean Energy Corridor (NECEC) is employing more than 1,000 Maine workers in well-paying jobs and generating millions of dollars for local vendors. Municipalities that host portions of the project are receiving millions in new tax dollars beginning this year, based on NECEC’s estimate that one-third of the endeavor’s value is in place. […]

I ask voters to elect Carl Sheline to be the next mayor of Lewiston. Having served as a city councilor and council president with four mayors, I know Carl is capable and the right choice to move Lewiston forward. I ask people to join me in voting for Carl Sheline for mayor. Paul Poliquin, Lewiston

The party’s over. Tom Brady proved he could win without Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Bill can’t win without Tom. Now Bill has given the keys to a rookie who should be sitting and watching a veteran. The game has passed Belichick by like a memory in the NFL’s rearview mirror. This year’s schedule and roster […]