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Two Auburn memorials to be dedicated Friday
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175th anniversary
Chapter 1: The Mystery of the Headless Skeleton
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Sun Journal photographers choose some of their favorite images from May 14-20, 2022.
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Malloy was once the least popular governor in the country and some in Connecticut are still upset about his reforms of that state's higher education system.
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The mother of a troubled teenager, who died this month behind the wheel of her family's SUV in Saco, shares the frustration of helping her daughter navigate an anemic mental health system.
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‘He doesn’t understand or want to understand the issues the faculty are raising,’ said a professor from the Augusta campus, the first school to declare no confidence in Chancellor Dannel Malloy.
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More than 2,000 Maine households have been disconnected over the past month, and tens of thousands more are struggling with past-due balances.
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After building roots in Farmington, will the professors eliminated from UMF's humanities and social sciences programs leave the community they have come to love?
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Moan if you will, like it or not, we all know that the arrival of tourists is necessary for Maine. But now's the time to hit those downtown hot spots and those favorite seasonal places before they get too crowded to visit.
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"We've had customers from Puerto Rico, California, Missouri and Florida buy on the phone. Then they fly up here and drive away." — Rick Emmert, sales manager at Call of the Wild RV Center in Oxford
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Since 1935, the camp on Thompson Lake has been helping children learn vital life skills while also providing an escape from their everyday lives.
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Annie Harris-Rowe thrown from a motorcycle Saturday afternoon after traveling off the River Road in Anson, according to the Somerset County Sheriff's Office.
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One person is in custody, and Maine State Police are investigating the incident, which occurred Saturday afternoon in the York County town.
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The Maine Department of Transportation's three-year work plan includes more than 2,300 projects at a total estimated cost of $3.2 billion.
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A jury convicted Avery Miller on six of eight charges after a three-day trial.
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The real inventor of the Skycycle flew one over Lewiston 18 months before Arthur Wallace Barnard took flight in Tennessee
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Commencement speaker Kristina Cannon reminded graduates of the importance of the role they have in their rural Maine towns.
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Virgil White, 33, was known last to be in Athens and is wanted for a number of charges.
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A total of 214 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus statewide on Saturday, one fewer than the day before.
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A rift between members of the City Council continued this week, with councilors previously criticized for unethical behavior accusing Mayor Carl Sheline of forcing out a member of the Planning Board.
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"A Newsman Who Is Not A Sportswriter Ordinarily Finds Fights ‘Smell Bad,’" from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.
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"'The Fight' Will Be Argued About For Many Weeks," by Lewiston Evening Journal Sports Editor Norman S. Thomas, as it appeared in the May 26, 1965, edition of the newspaper.
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Frank Dingley, who died in 1918, was Lewiston's longest-serving and most influential editor.
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A history of the newspaper in Lewiston from 1847 to the present
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A consumer investigation into valid car inspections, an analysis of school security, a story revealing how one Auburn women was scammed out of her living savings, and an investigation that led to the demise of Maine Education Services. These stories and more prompted results with impact.
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A Lewiston Weekly Journal story from June 9, 1885 reported that Mrs. Spaulding was scuffling with her husband. She had her hands before her face. After the officers entered the door, he fired at her.
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The Lewiston Falls Journal, the community's first newspaper, rolled off the press 175 years ago today.
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The story of that man and that murder, arguably the biggest ongoing news story that ever occurred in Lewiston, will be told in full this year as part of the newspaper’s 175th anniversary.
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This story, which appeared in the Lewiston Saturday Journal on April 20, 1912, is reprinted in full.
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A Lewiston Evening Journal story from Nov. 11, 1896.
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Let’s just grab a handful of the news items reported on that day to get a sense of what the paper’s local coverage was like in those simpler times.
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The want of a newspaper in this vicinity has long been felt and lamented, and it is the intention so to conduct the Journal that it may be acceptable to all parties, and a profitable visitant at every fireside.
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"Clay-Liston Championship Match Set for Lewiston’s CMYC May 25," from the May 7, 1965, edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal.
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Edward Little High School students hand out provisions to the homeless during Community Service Day
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Prosecutors said Scott O'Donnnell was convicted of murder twice in 1991.
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The landmark legislation has helped restore and protect Maine’s waterways, including the Androscoggin River.
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What the 34-year newspaper veteran brings to the role of publisher is a well-rounded familiarity of the inner workings of the news business.
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Arrests listed from May 6 to May 17.
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A town meeting is scheduled right after the annual meeting June 20.
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A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim.
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The package is nearly $700,000 more than last year.
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The state's jobless rate in April was the lowest in two years, and the number of jobs was nearly back to the pre-pandemic level.
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Two local men suffered wounds in two gunshot incidents.
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No one was injured in the fire Friday that sent black smoke billowing into the air from the Consolidated Communications truck.
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Daily case counts also have eased from earlier this month, although the Maine's infection rate remains high and the federal government is officially advising indoor mask wearing.
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Maine Catholic schools recognize the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
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Authorities said the shooting of Tyler Morin, 36, happened Friday morning at the Ready Road Services towing company.
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Maine School Administrative District 53, which serves Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield, held its annual budget hearing Thursday.
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The kindergarten teacher is disappointed that Gov. Mills and the state Department of Education responded to criticism by removing her video lesson from the state's website.
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The fire spread from the chimney to the roof and walls.