My parents, who grew up during the Great Depression, were thrifty but festive during the holidays. My mother spread the newspaper on the clean floor of our garage and lightly sprayed a can of gold paint over the pages. This became our Christmas wrapping paper. She tied her packages with a red ribbon and added […]
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Black Friday shopping traditions
When people meet Bill Nadeau, of Lewiston, they know he’s a fun-loving fellow always ready to brighten up the day with conversation and humor. In fact, many people go to his Auburn eyewear store, Affordable Eyes, not only to make a purchase, but to indulge in his easy-going banter. But talk about Black Friday shopping […]
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Heirloom for the holiday
As holiday traditions go, there are those that bring smiles, those that bring laughs, and those that turn the entire family into a hot, sloppy mess. For the Bellavance family, however, they are tears of joy, thanks to a one-time whim which has since become an annual event none of them would give up. The […]
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Hot holiday toys for 2010
Every child wants the popular toys for Christmas. Each year parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles head to the stores in search of those sold-out items and must-have gifts. So what gifts are bound to be snatched from toy store shelves this season? Here are a few that kids are bound to be requesting. * Moon […]
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Reindeer not all red-nosed Rudolphs
While Rudolph might be the most famous reindeer, there remains no documented evidence of a red-nosed reindeer guiding Santa’s sleigh on an especially stormy Christmas Eve. But just because no one has yet to find the real Rudolph, that doesn’t mean we don’t know a few things about Santa’s sled buddies. • Reindeer are also […]
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Read the PDF version of the print edition here.
Greetings! Sun Journal is happy to present the official FEZtival of Trees guide as a page-turning document that can be viewed, printed and shared. The content in our magazine is meant to bring you information about resources available to you in the local area. E-mail [email protected] with your comments about this, or any Special Sections […]
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Reader comments: How can we make them better?
Reader comments. I hear from both sides, you love them or you hate them. And the subject of how newspapers moderate comments have come up often in the news — the recent temporary removal of comments from pressherald.com comes to mind. As Web editor, part of my job is to make sure that discussion on […]
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Correction: Wrong time
LEWISTON — A list of musical entertainment published Sunday on Page 4 in the FEZtival of Trees supplement contained the wrong start time for the Christmas Tubas. The correct time is 11 a.m. It was an editing error.
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Alcoa presents Fantastic Finishes
If you haven’t seen the final play of today’s Houston/Jacksonville game, I highly recommend you go to nfl.com and check it out. Not just because it’s one of those finishes that will go down in football history, and not just because Gus Johnson describes it with perhaps the single most disorienting call of all time. […]
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It’s a festival and it’s back!
It has established itself as the premier kickoff for the holiday season in Lewiston-Auburn, and it’s back, bigger and better than ever, for its fifth consecutive year. Named for the distinctive headgear by which Shriners are known throughout the world, the FEZtival of Trees returns to the Kora Shrine Temple in Lewiston. “We just can’t […]