Liz Perry carries her daughter Natalie, 2, on a snowshoe adventure at Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary in Lewiston on Friday afternoon, as her husband, Stephen Perry, follows. The Greene family snowshoes for fun and to explore parks and recreational areas. (Sun Journal photo by Andree Kehn)
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Author Paul Doiron makes his Maine stories ‘authentic’
LEWISTON — Author Paul Doiron likes to think of his crime novels as entertainment, first and foremost. They are fiction, after all. But at a deeper level, he told a Lewiston audience Thursday, his books attempt to lay out an “authentic” Maine, with uniquely Maine settings and problems. The opioid crisis, economic inequality and the […]
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Salt wagon
Marguerite Bouvier, 93, throws road salt on patches of ice on her driveway in Auburn on Thursday. Bouvier said her wagon allows her to complete tasks that need to be done around the house. “It comes in very useful,” she said. (Sun Journal photo by Daryn Slover)
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'Human Error' to open at The Public Theatre Jan. 25
LEWISTON — Get ready for nine months of laughter. A blundering fertility doctor mistakenly implants the embryo of a latte-sipping liberal couple into the womb of a NRA-cardholding conservative family in the East Coast premiere of the timely and provocative new comedy, Eric Pfeffinger’s “Human Error,” playing Jan. 25–Feb. 3, at The Public Theatre, 31 Maple […]
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Bates announces MLK Day events
LEWISTON — The Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Bates College this year will include three days of presentations, lectures, discussion sessions, readings and performances, ending with a read-in at Martel School on Wednesday afternoon. The theme for this year’s event is “Lifting Every Voice: Intersectionality and Activism.” On Sunday, the program kicks off […]
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Lewiston police investigate man’s stabbing
LEWISTON — A local man sustained stab wounds to his chest and abdomen Tuesday night at an apartment somewhere on Pine Street. Police said Matthew Gammon, 36, was in a St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center parking lot and reported he was stabbed during a fight shortly before 11 p.m. He was taken to Central Maine Medical […]