Charges Auburn * Ryan Stephen Stone, 21, transient, shoplifting, refusing to sign criminal summons and assault, 5:21 p.m. Sunday at Walmart Supercenter, 100 Mount Auburn Ave. * Ryan James Hartford, 26, of 174 Pierce St., Lewiston, warrant, 6:08 p.m. Sunday on Main Street. Lewiston * Kenneth Simpson, 25, of 61 River St., assault, 6:30 p.m. […]
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American Legion Baseball: Pastime sweeps Mechanic Falls, stays first in Zone 3
LEWISTON — Pastime Club celebrated two walkoff wins Saturday at Franklin Pasture. One was traditional fare. The other, a little bit scary. Alex Small’s single through the box scored Luke Cote in the bottom of the seventh inning, powering Pastime to a 3-2 victory over Mechanic Falls Post 150 in the morning half of a […]
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O. Emery: Revisit the funding formula
The RSU 16 board, in its infinite wisdom, has decided not to revisit the funding formula for the three district towns. In the past two years, Minot has been hit twice with large tax hikes; this year, Mechanic Falls joined in. With the school ranking of 40 out of a possible 182, my question to […]
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Softball, spaghetti, shopping all benefit Mechanic Falls 15-year-old
POLAND — Summer Emery didn’t swing a bat in Saturday’s softball game, but a lot of bats were swung in her name. Platefuls of spaghetti were eaten in her honor, too, and women from all over Mechanic Falls sold Tupperware and purses and fingernail art and glittery tattoos — all to help the 15-year-old. “It’s […]
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C. Pressey: Ride with traffic
On June 16, the Sun Journal printed an editorial about horses and cars safely sharing Maine roads. I would go further to remind all horsemen out there to ride with traffic. Recently, my daughter came upon two young riders in the Norway area riding horses facing traffic. That is wrong and they were breaking current […]
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American Legion Baseball: Rogers continues rise, trips Mechanic Falls
POLAND — The program that lost multiple seasons, forfeited doubleheaders and has generally struggled to regain its identity in Zone 3 American Legion baseball is showing signs of life. William J. Rogers Post 153 continued its climb back into the race for a state tournament berth Thursday night, riding the middle of its order and […]
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Nursing students graduate, earn honors
LEWISTON — The Central Maine Medical Center College of Nursing and Health Professions graduated 49 nursing students in a ceremony at the Franco-American Heritage Center. Having successfully completed the two-year nursing education program, the graduates were awarded associate degrees in the applied science of nursing. Erin Elizabeth Cady of Mechanic Falls and Sherryann St. Pierre […]
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K. and C. Bennett: An outrage for taxpayers
We read an article in the June 28 Sun Journal about a New Hampshire woman who lost her job because she refused a customer’s use of an electronic benefits transfer card to buy cigarettes. She quit after the manager of the Maine-based store in New Hampshire reprimanded her, which we don’t feel was right. We […]
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G. Chabot: Some people have no respect
This is in response to the letter from Marie Fields (June 17) about people who ignore signs. I recently went on a bus trip to the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt. While taking a walk around the property, we came to a family cemetery with a fence around it and a “private” sign hanging […]