By planes, trains and boats, Santa’s arrival in Lewiston once created holiday hoopla

For 175 years, the Sun Journal has published from the heart of Lewiston

We take a look back at the newspaper's various locations downtown in the wake of its first move in nearly a century.

The Lewiston Evening Journal put ‘rosy old’ Santa on trial in 1897

125 years ago, the Journal asked prominent religious leaders in Maine if Santa Claus should be abolished. It got a spirited variety of responses.

Watch: Learn how to access history from the newspaper archives with Steve Collins

Join us for a virtual conversation about what hidden gems can be found in our archives, now on Newspapers.com.

Odors from a polluted Androscoggin River used to peel paint off houses

The river's staggering stench in days past defied description, though many tried in newspapers, politics and even poetry.

The shameful support of eugenics by the Lewiston Evening Journal

A century ago, the paper endorsed involuntary sterilization and flirted with murder in a quest to rid humanity of "feeble-minded" people.

Judith Meyer: Recognize discrimination for what it is. Wrong

The power of the people — and of the press — is to push back and make it right for all people, regardless of skin color, where they were born, their abilities, their sexual orientation or their faith.

Before radio and television, crowds gathered at the newspaper for big sports news

In 1884, the ‘very interesting’ sport of hockey arrived in Lewiston

Gray-New Gloucester boys dominate Maine soccer in the early ’80s

The team took three state titles over a five-year period starting in 1979.