“What do I do? I have a pencil in my eye!” She had dropped something while she was at her desk. As she leaned down to grab it, her eye caught the pencil laying on the edge of her desk just right. Or just wrong. Even though it was a Saturday morning, Roger Bergeron told […]
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L-A holiday parade is tonight
The Twin Cities’ holiday celebration will be held Monday, Nov. 26, the sixth year the cities have combined efforts. The parade will start at 6 p.m. at Main and Academy streets, stopping briefly at Auburn’s Festival Plaza to light the Christmas tree before continuing across the Gov. James B. Longley Memorial Bridge up Main Street […]
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Business and Bates:Networking event hopes to pair students, local companies
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce and Bates College are partnering for a first-of-its-kind mixer to connect local businesses who need help with college students who need experience. In bigger cities, those sort of matches happen naturally all the time, said Colleen Coxe, senior associate director of employer and alumni relations at the […]
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T. Hiltz: Becoming productive citizens
In reference to Pastor Douglas Taylor’s comment (Nov. 7) on the dangers of the “ghetto” he lives in, I find it hard to believe that it is a fault of any Lewiston official or public safety. The problem is the result of the federal and state organizations that place people back into the same environment […]
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R. Macdonald: A shameful display
Shameless. That is the only polite word I can think of to describe the demonstration staged in front of Veterans Memorial Park on Veterans Day by Maine People’s Alliance. On a day set aside each year to honor the sacrifice of veterans who served this country, they stained the park, attempting to focus people’s attention […]
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Nate Libby: Cities would benefit from tax reform at state, national levels
Towns and cities are where the effects of budget cuts imposed in distant capitals are finally felt. Whether it was politicians in Augusta or Washington who wielded the budget ax, it is municipal officials, such as myself, who have to pick up the pieces — either finding workarounds to maintain vital services, watching our neighbors […]
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Michael Hilliker: Physicians forgetting the oath they took
After reading the Sun Journal story (Nov. 18) “Doctors ask for random drug testing,” I would like to relay my personal experience with Maine doctors’ approach to treating their patients as if they are all drug addicts. My wife and I moved back to Maine a few months ago to care for my wife’s father, […]
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Special Olympics Maine sending athletes to Korea
MEXICO — To say that Tanya Scott and Kala Emery are excited is an understatement. The athletes were recently chosen to represent Maine and the nation on Team USA from Jan. 29 through Feb. 5 at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Scott, of Mexico, is a member of Emma’s Happy […]
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The People Beat: Museum L-A celebrates power of music through generations
LEWISTON — Several men look serious and slightly out of place as they pose kneeling with their instruments in a field. Their muskets, stacked against a building in the background, hint at the probability that these men belonged to a local militia. The enlarged sepia photo captures a moment in 1885 and in the lives […]
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Police log
Charges Lewiston * Timothy Joseph Kuvaja, 31, of 75 Spring St., on charges of domestic assault and criminal mischief, 9:40 a.m. Friday at that address. Auburn * Jonathan Cain, 22, of 2309 Hotel Road, on charges of driving while intoxicated and driving to endanger, 1:16 a.m. Thursday on Center Street. Androscoggin County * Merton Haskell, […]