Auburn’s mayor, council, and city staff are working toward solutions that benefit the citizens of Auburn. Having lived here with my family for 20 years and volunteering in various areas over many of those years, it is encouraging to watch these leaders work with residents to get things done in a way that is positive […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
Rudolph Ziehm: How do you apologize for telling the truth?
Hunter Biden and the two-tier justice system seem to be true. In 1974, Nelson Rockefeller owed the Internal Revenue Service $903,718 for taxes not paid in the previous five years. He paid $820,718, with no penalty, which is normal in settling undisputed cases. It is not normal for the former president to threaten to withhold […]
Mary Anne Norcross: The greatest gift is ‘the gift of life’
In a recent interview, blind Italian tenor Andre Bocelli made a statement about abortion. His mother had been advised by doctors to end her pregnancy because the child was going to be impaired. His mother refused. He stated: “the greatest gift my mother has ever given me was the gift of life.” Our legislators and […]
Terence McManus: Those who applied for college loans should pay the debt
It is a given that, in many cases, in order for a student to go to college he or she will have to get a loan. It is also a given that tuition costs are rising exponentially year after year. But — those who took out these loans promised to pay them back — they […]
Renee Cote: Vote Harmon for Auburn mayor, stop the theatrics
Come November, Auburn voters have a chance to change the tone in city hall. For the past few years many news reports about Auburn have featured an argumentative mayor responding negatively to pushback from citizens who are concerned about the rapid development all over the city, including on our beautiful lake. Jeff Harmon is running […]
John Cleveland: Jeff Harmon is a natural leader
Jeff Harmon has always been a natural leader. During his first career in law enforcement and public service he began as a patrol officer in the Auburn Police Department. Based on his leadership skills, he rose to become the deputy chief of the Maine State Police. Then in his second career with a software company, […]
Richard Nadeau: Governor should have put COVID funds into lobstering industry
Not only does our governor of Maine want feticide on demand, now she wants to drive the North Atlantic right whale to extinction. There are only about 350 of these animals left. She used COVID money from the federal government to give every Mainer who filed their income taxes $850, when this money actually should […]
Ann Oskam: Save Lake Auburn, vote Harmon for mayor
Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque is a real estate developer. He and his like-minded cronies’ thinly veiled attempts to steer Auburn away from its longstanding comprehensive plan to maintain the precious natural resources is not a mystery or concern for affordable housing, which evidently belongs in Lewiston or on the backs of low income homeowners in […]
William LaRochelle: Cal Thomas, John Adams ‘are light years apart doctrinally’
I can sympathize with Cal Thomas’ decrying our decadent, “anything goes culture” (“We must care about what’s appropriate,” Sun Journal, June 21). The evidence is everywhere. On Yahoo’s website, for example, I sometimes see laudatory reports with photos about female celebrities pushing the envelope by appearing publicly in broad daylight wearing tops that only hide […]
In rebuttal: Douglas Hodgkin: Correcting the ‘myth’ behind Lewiston’s name
Unfortunately, the article by Steve Collins (“One of the Androscoggin’s mysteries: Why did Lewiston Falls become Great Falls?,” June 25) ended with the myth about the Native American named “Lewis” as the source of the name of “Lewiston.” Actually, when the Pejepscot Proprietors granted the land to Moses Little and Jonathan Bagley in 1768, they […]