Flag Day
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I salute … the flag of the United States of America
Special to the Sun Journal I salute … the editor of a colonial newspaper who shut down his paper rather than pay the Stamp Act tax of 1765; his last edition proclaimed liberty as “the greatest blessing human beings can enjoy”and taxation without representation as being “fettered with the chains of inimical servitude.” I salute […]
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‘Amazing to hold it in your hands’: Flag Day ceremony held in Auburn
AUBURN — A community observance of Flag Day on Saturday featured patriotic music, along with some history of the annual June 14 celebration, and some flag etiquette information. “It’s amazing to hold it in your hands,” said Willie Danforth, commander of Franco-American War Veterans Post 31 in Lewiston. He had just raised the Stars and […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Rumford board to revisit Public Works’ proposed projects
RUMFORD — Selectmen will revisit a couple of Public Works project proposals at their meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5, in Rumford Falls Auditorium. The first, under old business, is Superintendent Andy Russell’s attempt to seek bids to reline a sewer main with cure-in-place fiberglass resin rather than try to dig up the old […]