This passing shower has turned into a deluge.Last month, during public hearings on the city of Lewiston’s new storm water fee, the response was symbolized by empty chairs in the City Council chambers. The anticipated mob of angry ratepayers failed to appear, indicating at least tacit acceptance of the unique fee.Like rain itself, the fee […]

“They know now and say it was a pretty stupid thing to do,” said SAD 21 Superintendent Tom Ward, after two teens were apprehended Tuesday outside Dirigo High School in Dixfield, one with a BB-gun tucked into his waistband that was a dead-ringer for an authentic .45-caliber pistol.Given the state of alarm around American schools […]

Just when one thinks mankind has sunk to its furthest depths.Two unsigned threatening letters have been mailed to Danielle Ramon, the Auburn teen who accused Lewiston Mayor Lionel Guay of inappropriate groping while working in his accounting office last year. Guay, 65, was cleared of three counts of sexual touching by an Androscoggin County jury […]

“On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.”President […]

It’s taken Wal-Mart two weeks what it’s taken the U.S. Senate two years to do.On Friday, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, released a scathing letter they co-authored to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The letter criticizes Frist for failing to schedule debate on their federal Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug […]

ROCKY RIDGE, Utah – Like many mainstream Mormons who embrace fundamentalist church tenets, Charles began questioning in college why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints disavowed some of its early principles, including polygamy.In 1990, he and his wife joined the Apostolic United Brethren, a denomination that practices many of the lifestyle choices Mormons […]

EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah – The neighborhood looks like any other in the upper middle class suburbs: sprawling homes with porch swings and manicured lawns strewn with discarded kids’ bikes.But beneath the all-American veneer, much is different in this upscale subdivision 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.“Pretty much everyone who lives here is polygamous,” said […]

Alyson Stone, the executive director of Empower Lewiston, took out her checkbook recently to make a purchase in Portland. When the clerk saw her address on the check, she remarked about Stone, “Not everyone in Lewiston is a bad person.”It was an offhand remark, probably, but for Stone – a downtown Lewiston homeowner and leader […]

Three members of the Guy family from Paris escaped serious injuries this week following an accident that underscores a pressing need to review Maine laws regarding cellular phones and driving.Gary Guy, while driving, was talking on his cell phone to brother Luke Guy, who was a passenger in their father William’s pickup. Both were traveling […]

A fatal crash this week at Routes 108 and 140 in Canton – once considered one of the River Valley’s most dangerous intersections – must rekindle debate about safety at the town’s downtown crossroads.On Tuesday, a 34-year-old Farmington woman, Ginger Harris, was killed when her car was struck while passing through the intersection. The last […]