CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Gaten Matarazzo, 20; Dianne Doan, 32; David Arquette, 51; Neko Case, 52. Happy Birthday: You may be up for a challenge this year, but don’t feel like you have to take on unreasonable demands. Change doesn’t have to be difficult. Recognize what’s available and how you can use your skills, […]
Life & Culture
Arts and entertainment news and advice columns from the Sun Journal.
Posted inDear Abby
Man fumes when longtime girlfriend redecorates
DEAR ABBY: I have been with my boyfriend for nine years. Over the last three months or so we have been fighting. It started when I bought a cabinet for our bathroom. When he came home, he threw a hissy fit about it. He told me he didn’t like it and kept yelling at me […]
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Posted inEncore
Looking Back on Sept. 8
100 Years Ago: 1922 Drum Major Jones of the Arab patrol looked like a giant, out on the circus sideshows. He towered–plus his headgear–so far above his troops. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The annual awards banquet for the Fairlawn Country Club will be held on September 12th. at the East Poland clubhouse and will be […]
Posted inDr. Roach
Long-term treatment for continuous panic attacks is necessary
DEAR DR. ROACH: What causes a sudden feeling of being nervous and having your chest beat hard and restless? One time, I ran to the hospital because I thought I was having a heart attack, but all test results came back normal, including my electrocardiogram, hormone level, potassium, complete blood count, cholesterol, uric acid, liver, […]
Posted inEncore, Things to Do
Brunswick center to host 2nd Chamberlain Legacy Lecture Sept. 15
Pejepscot History Center, which owns and operates the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, plans to present the second annual Chamberlain Legacy Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. The lectures takes place in Lemont Hall, on the corner of Maine and Pleasant streets in Brunswick, according to a news release from the center. Keynote speaker […]
Posted inSun Spots
L&A Veterans Council solicits names for memorial stone in park
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Anyone in Sun Spots Land who wants to have their veteran’s name on a memorial stone at Veterans Memorial Park at Main and Lincoln streets in Lewiston must submit their information by Sept. 15. The names will be unveiled during a program Veterans Day. ANSWER: For information, go to the Lewiston or […]
Posted inEncore, Lewiston-Auburn
‘Scattering CJ’ to be shown on public television
Award-winning documentary profiles grieving mother’s inspired idea to honor her son’s life
Posted inEncore
Local painter’s work on display at CMMC gallery
The art of Elisabeth Salberg is now on display through the month of September at the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Graduating from Duke University where she studied art history, life took Salberg on a different path. For over 30 years she worked as a registered nurse, […]
Posted inEncore
UMF Visiting Writers Series presents award-winning journalist, travel writer
Award-winning writer Julia Cooke is the first reader of the season for the celebrated Visiting Writers Series presented by the University of Maine at Farmington. Cooke will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the […]