LEWISTON — Picking up McMahon Elementary School students during the month of February was messy and congested. Some people worried that students were at risk of being struck by a vehicle because they were hard to see in the snowbanks and traffic. But after watching a video filmed by Sun Journal photographer Russ Dillingham, school and […]
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Balloon Festival Criterium to be held in Lewiston on Sunday
LEWISTON — This Sunday, downtown Lewiston will be the site of the first Balloon Festival Criterium, a tight, fast-paced .7-mile loop that will feature six amateur and professional races plus three fun races, one for adults and two for children. Rainbow Bicycle, Busytown Bikes and the Maine Cycling Club have organized the event, which starts […]
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Video purportedly shows extremist leader in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has made what would be his first public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq’s second-largest city, according to a video posted online Saturday. […]
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Webcams offer viewers unflinching look at nature
PORTLAND — Wildlife webcam operators around the world are grappling with a problem: Viewers don’t want to see any harm come to critters they’ve grown to love. Officials caved in to protests about the grittier side of nature last month in Minnesota, attempting to rescue a baby eagle with a broken wing. In coastal Maine, […]
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$57,500 deal for woman charged with taping cops
WEARE, N.H. — The town of Weare will pay $57,500 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a woman who said police were wrong to charge her for videotaping a traffic stop. In the settlement, the town and its police force don’t admit wrongdoing. Charles Bauer, the lawyer representing the town and some […]
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Federal appeals court dismisses appeal of Weare police, saying citizens may video police
CONCORD, N.H. — A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a New Hampshire woman’s lawsuit against the Weare police department, saying she had a constitutional right to videotape a police officer during a traffic stop. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals says citizens may videotape police officers performing their duties unless an officer orders […]
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UMF campus rocks in Happy video
FARMINGTON — A video featuring students, faculty and staff at the University of Maine at Farmington and set to the popular song “Happy” is getting lots of views online. It’s mostly about fun, creator Abraham Turcotte, a UMF senior from Portland, said. They dance. They clap. They sing. And the world is watching. The video […]
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Frantasia Festival breaks musical ground
JAY — If you were to walk into Jay’s Otis Mill in August 1913, your ears would have been greeted by the sounds of the country’s third-largest paper mill, busy with work. One hundred years later, the 10th annual Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts filled the mill with sounds of a different variety […]
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Auburn library media lab offers inspiration and tools
AUBURN — One way or another, Zach Hurd’s thoughts would likely come out. The Edward Little High School junior said he wrote and recorded his first song when he was about 10. “I go back and now, I’d just like to rip those early songs apart and start all over — do them again,” Hurd […]