By Donna Keene RousseauSun Journal Staff When planning your holiday outings or searching for something special to do on a winter’s weekend, think sleigh rides! Throughout Maine, local stables and selected inns provide visitors and guests with the opportunity to enjoy the old-fashioned pastime most often reserved for Christmas cards and Currier and Ives prints.Whorff […]

The big news in Maine skiing as we head into a new season is the change in ownership of two areas. Black Mountain is now a part of the Maine Winter Sports Center and Saddleback has been purchased by retired UMF professor Bill Berry in moves that bode well for both areas.Already at Black Mountain […]

Just because the lakes are frozen doesn’t mean anglers have to sit indoors and wait for spring to bring back good fishing. Anglers who drop lines through the ice often catch their limit of white and yellow perch, bass, trout, panfish and crappie. With the right equipment and proper techniques, any angler can turn winter […]

Two highlights of the coming season are the US Wheelchair Curling playoffs scheduled for November 21-23 and the Grand National Men’s Curling playoffs scheduled for January 9-11.Both of these events will bring teams competing at the national level to Belfast. They are not to be missed opportunities to watch great curling. The winner of the […]

Ski Maine Association is the non-profit trade association representing 18 ski areas in Maine. The following information outlines many of the improvements that will be seen at Maine mountains this winter. Maine continues to be recognized as a premier ski state with facilities located across the state from Fort Kent, to the Camden Hills, to […]

The Annual Bethel WinterFest 2004 will be held from January 30 through February 4 at various locations throughout the town. One of the most popular and well-attended winter celebrations in Maine, the WinterFest annually draws participants from throughout Maine and the entire northeast.This year’s celebration of winter will include the 4th Annual Antique Snowmobile Show […]

Tears, happiness, cuddling, and understanding are only a few of the things I learned as did the other sophomores, at Sophomore Awareness Week. When I first heard about this ‘Sophomore Awareness Week’ I thought ‘how dumb,’ but it was really my thinking that was extremely dumb. Awareness week was a once in a life time […]

When I think of Hollywood, I think of Los Angeles. It’s all bright lights, beautiful people, and disgusting amounts of money. The last thing I think of is a high school football field in Skowhegan, Maine; especially not the way it looks in mid-October. When we arrived, the soggy field was torn up from too […]

On December 18, 1990, my younger sister Mandy was bom. When she had reached the age of two, she was diagnosed with Autism, a mental disorder that separates the person from the world and their surroundings. I was four at this time so I was constantly wondering why my younger sister wouldn’t acknowledge my presence […]

If you are waltzing down the social studies wing one day at LHS, and you happen to hear facts of geometry, stop to welcome Mrs. Karen Choate to our school. She is the new math teacher on Team Three of the four freshmen teams at Lewiston High. Team three, now in its fourth year, took […]