DEAR ABBY: Because my fiance and I had bad experiences in the past, we settled on just living together for the last 17 years. He has been like a husband to me and faithful all these years. Recently, however, I caught him in an online affair. I checked his phone one day out of the […]
Life & Culture
Arts and entertainment news and advice columns from the Sun Journal.
Placebo response may be at work on reader’s leg cramps
DEAR DR. ROACH: I was a bit surprised that in your response to a question about coping with nighttime leg cramps some time ago, you made no mention of vitamin E. I was troubled with these painful cramps increasingly often and tried both calcium and magnesium supplements without evident improvement. I then saw mention of […]
Terrance Simien Mardi Gras livestream event will benefit Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
A livestream Terrence Simien Mardi Gras celebration from the Vermillion Performance Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, will begin at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13. Celebrate Mardi Gras with this multiple Grammy-winning Zydeco champion, and have a blast along the way! Tickets cost $15-$35. A portion of each ticket sold will benefit the Opera House at Boothbay […]
Chocolate Church Arts Center plans virtual Valentine’s Showcase
Oshima Brothers, Love By Numb3rs will be the featured performers.
Looking Back on Feb. 9
100 Years Ago: 1921 At the regular meeting of the Auburn City Council held at their rooms last evening, the City Manager was authorized to advertise for bids at the brick paving construction during the coming summer. The city has bricks on hand sufficient for the work contemplated and the contractors are to furnish cement. […]
Marijuana businesses drawing complaints about odor
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Can something be done about the odor that comes from every other big building around Maine now? We put limits on odor emissions from the local mills in the past. We now have to live with the odor from marijuana on a daily basis. Pot growers pushed for this business to pass […]
StoryWalk program features ‘Snow Still’ by Holly Surplice
Freeport Community Library
Portland Stage awarded $20,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts
Portland Stage has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights. Portland Stage’s project is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category. […]