Maine Archives - Lewiston Sun Journal

Lewiston’s effort to improve its image starts with Kennedy Park

by Andrew Rice June 1, 2025June 2, 2025

The new city administrator is behind an effort to change how the city is perceived, and he’s starting with Kennedy Park, trash and graffiti.

Maine, News, Politics

Read excerpts from Margaret Chase Smith’s Declaration of Conscience speech

by John Richardson June 1, 2025June 1, 2025

The Maine senator delivered her famous speech 75 years ago — June 1, 1950 — on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News

Lewiston’s new guardian: Muhammad Ali statue ‘challenges,’ ‘encourages’ and ‘reflects’ city

by Zoe Schaedle May 31, 2025June 1, 2025

On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd gathered undeterred by rainy weather to watch the statue’s unveiling after it had been installed Friday.

Lewiston-Auburn, Maine

St. Dom’s board ends effort to keep Auburn high school open for another year

by Mark Mogensen May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

School leaders say they will reconvene later to consider the future of the Auburn campus and Catholic secondary education in the community.

Maine, News

Tracking Maine’s wild mussel beds: Declining or retreating into the deep?

by Penelope Overton May 31, 2025June 4, 2025

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute would like the public to help hunt for wild mussel beds below the low-tide line.

Health, Maine

Maine health experts still recommend children, pregnant women get COVID-19 vaccine

by Joe Lawlor May 31, 2025May 30, 2025

This conflicts with guidance from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine advocate, who is recommending that healthy children and pregnant women not get COVID-19 shots.

Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Schools & Education

Lewiston High School graduates 337 at touching ceremony Friday

by Kendra Caruso May 30, 2025May 31, 2025

As the sun dipped low in the sky during their ceremony at the high school football field, graduates said goodbye to high school.

Maine, Nation / World, New England, Religion & Values

Convicted former Catholic priest, Cheverus teacher dies at 87

by PATRICK WHITTLE May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

James Talbot, who taught at the Portland Catholic school in the 1980s and 1990s, was convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed by The Boston Globe.