“The world was stunned on a rainy August night when a Bar Harbor Airlines plane crashed and burned in Auburn, claiming eight lives. “Among the victims was 13-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, who became an American sweetheart in 1983 after visiting the Soviet Union at the invitation of the late Yuri Andropov,” the leader of […]

Find our full archive of newspaper content at sunjournal.com/archives With thermometers across Maine pushing 110 degrees in July 1911, it’s no wonder that the baggage handler for the Maine Central Railroad in Livermore Falls collapsed on the job one afternoon. So, too, did Bert Clark, the blacksmith just down the street. A handful of workers […]