LIVERMORE FALLS — Do you have a book that you’ve been meaning to read? Come share the reading experience with others at the Spring Book Club at the Treat Memorial Library, beginning on Thursday, March 12, at 3 p.m. Bring your suggestions for books you would like to see read in the discussion group. One tip: try […]
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Political speeches used to pack in record crowds
It was almost 100 years ago when Teddy Roosevelt came to Lewiston for a visit that was then called “the greatest demonstration ever accorded any person in any political campaign in Maine.” Of course, there was no television coverage of such events in those days. There was no radio — not even electronic amplification for […]
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Great Falls Forum to feature the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
LEWISTON — This month’s second session of the Great Falls Forum will take place on Friday, Oct. 17, and will feature John Christie and Naomi Schalit from the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. The topic of the session will be “The Role of Investigative Reporting in Maine’s Democracy.” The lecture will take place from […]
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H.S. Spotlight: Names in the News
Boys’ Soccer Tyler Roux, Leavitt The senior scored three goals in a 3-2 Hornets win over Gardiner. He netted the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over Nokomis. Austin Roy, St. Dom’s The junior scored two goals in a 6-0 win over Dirigo and had another pair in a 3-0 win over Telstar. Girls’ Soccer […]
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Photo credit correction
The photo credit for a photo accompanying the “Redneck Wedding” story on page 12 of the Sun Journal’s Wedding Guide published Sunday, Aug. 24, was incorrect. The photo credit should have gone to photographer Andrea Hauck for the photo with the caption “Tim and Lori Merrill had a lot of fun at their wedding because […]
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Photo credit correction
The photo credit for a photo accompanying the “Redneck Wedding” story on page 12 of the Sun Journal’s Wedding Guide published Sunday, Aug. 24, was incorrect. The photo credit should have gone to photographer Andrea Hauck for the photo with the caption “Tim and Lori Merrill had a lot of fun at their wedding because […]
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‘We did not discuss execution, arrest or hanging,’ LePage says
BANGOR — In two calls Monday evening to the Bangor Daily News, Gov. Paul LePage vehemently disputed assertions made by a liberal blogger in a forthcoming book that LePage made references in 2013 to executing Maine’s speaker of the House and Senate president. “I was never in the room where ‘execute’ was used,” the governor […]
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Longtime NBC news correspondent John Palmer dies
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Palmer, a veteran reporter for NBC News who covered wars and Washington over a career that spanned 40 years, died Saturday after a brief illness at a Washington hospital. Palmer’s wife Nancy confirmed he died at George Washington University Hospital of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 77. The gentlemanly Palmer worked for […]