As congregations count down the days of Advent, the story of Christ’s birth and Joseph and Mary’s flight to another country for safety has prompted church leaders to draw some parallels this year.
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View our favorite photos from 2025
We revisit the best work from our photographers in the last year.
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Maine Trust for Local News 2025 Photos of the Year
In “On Photography,” a seminal collection of essays by Susan Sontag that examines the impact and meaning of photography, Sontag writes that “to collect photographs is to collect the world.” Gathering this collection of images from all the photographers of the Maine Trust for Local News, our aim is to show you a gallery that reveals glimpses of Maine, our part of the world.
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Sun Journal 2025 Photos of the Year
Acclaimed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange once said that “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” That speaks to the core of our job as photojournalists: within the blur of the constant motion of life, we search for moments, stopping time for an instant to reveal some character, beauty or deeper meaning. This collection of images are some moments during 2025 that are worth pausing to contemplate. We hope you appreciate viewing them as much as we enjoyed finding them.
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Toy Fund carries on legacy of giving that its founders shaped 76 years ago
Matthew Barron and Robert Beith started what would become the Press Herald Toy Fund in the winter of 1949, when — as they are now — times were tough for many Mainers.
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They deliver to your door. Here’s what you can do to make it easier and safer this winter.
Whether you’re expecting a gift from Grandma or a lobster feast from your favorite restaurant, the people making home deliveries could use some consideration during the winter holidays — and always.
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Maine’s chances for a white Christmas are looking good, but holiday travel could be snarled
A low-pressure system is moving toward the state and should arrive Tuesday, bringing a return to winter weather after a brief respite. Most of Maine can expect a few inches of snow, forecasters say.
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Charlie Brown in Bethel, New Year’s Eve fun in Auburn and Gardiner
Here are highlights of things to do in the area in the next week.
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Lewiston Grove Street fire is an active crime scene, officials say
A week earlier, a Lewiston man was arrested at the same location after allegedly vandalizing the house and starting a fire there.
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Some Mainers are rethinking holiday meals in wake of rising food costs and unsteady economy
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are featuring fewer guests, smaller portions and more scratch cooking in an effort to cut costs.