Lewiston School Superintendent Bill Webster and his wife are planning to take a three-month sailing vacation to the Bahamas starting Oct. 24. The trip will consume 85 vacation days Webster has earned in the past six years. The extended vacation, which was first proposed and is still supported by the Lewiston School Committee to stave […]

An Art Walk Lewiston Auburn event will be held tonight, one of the last before the end of the summer season, and the Sun Journal will be participating for the first time. The Art Walk has become a celebration of local art and artists, as businesses have opened their doors on the last Friday of […]

There is just something about putting a seed in the ground and watching it transform into food. Well, not just food. Really good, fresh food that tastes like accomplishment. It’s easy to take our familiarity with farming for granted because Maine is more Green Acres than Park Avenue, but the fact is that every plate […]

In Auburn, school officials maintain that spending $20,500 — and counting — in attorneys’ fees to battle over ownership of a narrow strip of teacher parking at the East Auburn Elementary School is in the public interest. In Androscoggin County, county and municipal officials maintain that spending a collective $175,000 — and counting — in […]

Last weekend in Lewiston-Auburn, the inaugural Auburn Summer Festival was held, and what a show many residents missed! The three-day festival included food, music, games and activities for the kids, at several venues around the city. Saturday night also featured a fireworks display over the Great Falls that rivaled many witnessed on the Fourth of […]

What we heard on stage in Portland Wednesday was pure incongruity. GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump warned us that the United States is admitting too many immigrants from “among the most dangerous places in the world.” This, from a man who hails from a country with one of the higher crimes rates in the world. […]

The race for the White House is now official. The candidates are set, donations are rolling and political parties are moving into full swing. From now until Nov. 8 we will be educated, inundated, motivated, exasperated and maybe even nauseated by promises and posturing on the national stage. Mainers will be among the millions of […]

There will be an overlap of two events at Kennedy Park later today, the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Club Criterium and a Pokemon Go! hunt hosted by the Lewiston Public Library. The crit — a fast-paced one-mile bike race around the park — will go off in eight different waves starting at 9:30 a.m., most about an […]

What’s with all the secrecy? The noble concept that public officials are conducting our business in public and in our best interest is taking a beating in Maine. Secret #1 The Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed a rule change that severely restricts how infectious disease data is released to the public. Right […]

Tyron Calhoun is a 23-year-old Lewiston man who has been repeatedly charged with drug crimes in which there was overwhelming evidence for prosecution. Yet, in each case the charges were dismissed because Calhoun does not have the mental capacity to stand trial. Meaning, his IQ is at a level where he cannot understand the consequences, […]