In our haste to honor Wayne Viger, the postman from Turner, honored for his heroism, we misidentified him as “Walter” in an editorial published on Saturday, Sept. 22, on page A8.Our numb mistake, however, doesn’t numb our strong, and sincere congratulations for his national honor. But like a postal worker delivering a letter, we should […]

If you are looking for Maine’s shrinking manufacturing base, try China or Indonesia.“And it’s not coming back,” says economist Charles Lawton, who spoke Thursday in Lewiston during the first Great Falls Forum of the 2007-2008 season. Lawton’s speech centered around where Maine’s economy now finds itself, two-thirds of the way through this century’s first decade.The […]

The Sun Journal wishes to publish veterans’ reactions about “The War,” the new documentary by Ken Burns about World War II, or the arrival of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Lewiston.Please send responses, of no more than 300 words, to Editorial Page Editor Anthony Ronzio, either via e-mail at [email protected], or at the Sun […]

Images of war will be hard to avoid this week.Today, the rumble of hundreds of motorcyclists will provide a timpanic accompaniment to a replica of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Wall, as it arrives in Lewiston for a weeklong installation at Veterans Memorial Park.Tonight, a seven-part series about World War II, “The War,” by acclaimed documentarian […]

Congress has begun hearings on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. Members of Congress have ample research to help them make key decisions on the future of a law that affects most of the children in the United States. What the research reveals is that NCLB has flaws, but changes can be made that […]

The Sun Journal wishes to publish veterans’ reactions about the “The War,” the new documentary about World War II, or the arrival of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Lewiston.Please send responses, of no more than 300 words, to Editorial Page Editor Anthony Ronzio, either via e-mail at [email protected], or at the Sun Journal: P.O. […]

It’s been a good week for Walter Viger, the Turner postman honored as “National Hero of the Year” by the National Letter Carriers Association and feted in Washington, D.C., by Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins.Not so bad, for somebody who believes his heroism was all in a day’s work.Viger came across an apartment […]

JoAn Karkos didn’t think her plan all the way through. By removing two controversial sex-ed books from the Auburn and Lewiston public libraries, she’s only drawn more attention to them.But unintended consequences are, after all, the offspring of half-baked ideas.Karkos removed “It’s Perfectly Normal” from the two libraries under the reasoning of protecting vulnerable young […]

What makes a great school is hard to quantify, while what can make a school fail, or meet, its “adequate yearly progress” is far too simplistic. Welcome to Montello School’s conundrum.One of Maine’s largest elementary schools, Montello didn’t meet its “adequate yearly progress” on standardized testing scores last year, in accordance with the federal No […]