True colors If you’re a reporter for any length of time, you’ll make mistakes. An utterance misheard in a courtroom. A misspelled name. Foolishly believing the tow truck driver when he tells you his name is Moe Lester. Mistakes happen. You write a correction, let an editor scream at you and do your best to […]

It’s the silences that get you. The silences between emergency calls, incoming planes or products rolling down the line. Those stretches of time and quiet make a person want to nap, and today more than ever, napping is taboo. It happens every time an air traffic controller falls asleep on the job. The common nap […]

Is there something that really irks you? Something about your job, your family or the stuff you have to deal with every day? Share it. E-mail your peeves to [email protected] or mail them to Sun Journal, attn: b section, P.O. Box 4400, Lewiston, ME 04240, and we’ll print them here. Please keep your gripe to […]

Welfare cheat sentenced to a year Now she gets to sit her butt in a state prison where all of her housing, food and medical needs will be provided by the you, the taxpayer. That’ll teach her. The Weiner affair When this started making headlines, I was horrified, thinking you people had discovered the terrible […]

Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Monday. Tonight Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Roots pianist, Neil Pearlman, 7:30 p.m., One Longfellow Square, Portland […]

Girls sit on one side of the room and boys on the other. Students clean up their classroom because there are no janitors. Children always write with their right hand and a Bible lesson is up next. Donna Berry of Minot teaches children how it once was inside Auburn’s last one-room schoolhouse. She opened the […]

When I was a kid, my mother warned me that a boy – big or wee – had no business inside a woman’s purse. The dark and perfumed world within a closed pocketbook was off-limits to my gender and that was that. I am forever grateful for the lesson. To this day, purses confound and […]