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Enough with the social media

Social media are dangerous. It seems as though every night on the nightly news someone is succumbing to the danger of various social media — whether it be sexting, child porn, prostitution, drug running, human trafficking, or bullying and destroying one’s confidence to the point that they commit suicide. I have dismissed myself from Facebook […]

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Doug Taylor: Get ready for a happy Christmas season

I don’t want to be a Grinch, but I think some people on low or fixed incomes need to get a grip during this time of holiday hoopla. I apologize up front if anyone misunderstands and becomes offended by what I am trying to convey this Christmas. I have had no formal training (thank God) […]

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D. Taylor: Child Abuse Awareness Month

The Sun Journal frequently publishes pictures from the sex offender registry, and as helpful as that may be to the public, it is still very sickening. I cannot express how upset my wife and I are about the recent stories in the newspaper of people being caught for child molestation and child pornography. We think […]

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D. Taylor: Cleanliness is next to godliness

The Sun Journal published a front page story on my efforts to rally my neighborhood to clean up after itself (“Neighborhood challenge: Get clean,” Sept. 17). A little trash talk has proven to provoke a few people to take a little pride. I looked out the window the other day and I saw a lady […]

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Lewiston man challenges neighborhood to clean up

LEWISTON — The Rev. Douglas Taylor is calling on his neighbors to clean up their act. At a brisk pace, Taylor approached a torn trash bag slumped over the curb near the corner of Bates and Birch streets, apparently not in front of any residence. “This is going to be all over the neighborhood,” Taylor […]