Iris Hughes, 3, holds up a head of broccoli while helping her mother, Casady, with vegetable shopping at the New Auburn Farmers Market on July 31, 2018. Behind Iris, Topher Castaneda, left, of Valley View Farm chats with Jackie Mathieu. (Sun Journal photo by Andree Kehn) I am a big fan of images with layers. […]
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Daryn Slover: Best photos of 2018
Drag queen Ophelia Johnson dances among the crowd during the Pride Festival & March in Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston on June 30, 2018. (Sun Journal photo by Daryn Slover) It can be tough to get any work done while working weekends sometimes. I had read about a Pride Festival happening in downtown Lewiston and thought it […]
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Donald Trump 'dynamited the institution of the presidency' in 2018
President Donald Trump crosses his arms after speaking with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on the phone about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON — Mr. Trump went to Washington. And he changed it. […]
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Russ Dillingham: Best photos of 2018
Lewiston High School graduate and Penn State junior Isaiah Harris crosses the finish line to win the 800 meters run at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on June 8, 2018. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham) Throughout my career, I have crossed the line of what is considered ethical journalism on several occasions. A journalist […]
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The 11 most consequential political trends of 2018
President Donald Trump again dominated 2018 politics, but the year was also notable for what happened, what didn’t happen and what it could all mean in 2019. Here’s The Washington Post’s list of the political trends that defined the year in politics: 1) Trump’s mounting falsehoods Trump’s false or misleading claims more than tripled during […]
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Investors losing confidence in Trump
Stock market losses and volatility, particularly in financial stocks, have people worried about, well, everything. This recent sell-off is historic in scale but strange because it’s hard to identify a specific culprit behind it. The jitters could be chalked up to the hawkishness of the Federal Reserve, the flattening of the yield curve, trade wars, […]
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How Trump can make the Syria withdrawal work
President Donald Trump’s Dec. 23 tweet promising a “slow and highly coordinated” withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria may ease the gnashing of teeth among officials and analysts in Washington, but it won’t end the criticism of his decision. That is precisely why the president should view the hullabaloo that erupted after he announced the […]
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Daughter has no future with ‘boyfriend’
DEAR ABBY: My daughter is a professional woman in her mid-20s. She works in a demanding field with a lot of overtime. She lives an hour away from us and is financially independent, but depends on us often for favors. She has been dating a man for a year and a half who doesn’t even […]
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Mystery Photo for December 30
If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo online at www.sunjournal.com/bplus.
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Talk of the town: Cash me outside, yo
The diet begins I am saddened to report that Talk of the Town has been placed on a pretty strict length limit of about 425 words. What that means for you, the clearly deranged reader, is that I will no longer be in here going on and on and on about nothing at all. Nope. […]