Linn Wells pulled no punches. It’s Saturday, May 30, 1970. The long time Bowdoin coach, eight year Navy veteran and television sportscaster was outraged. Now station manager and “roving reporter” for Farmington’s WKTJ, Wells was broadcasting from an event in his home town of Wilton being conducted in defiance of a new state law. He […]
Carl Natale
Web editor for SunJournal.com
Posted inArts & Entertainment, New England, News, River Valley
Mexico couple sells home that inspired ‘The Conjuring’ movie for $1.525 million
The Rhode Island farmhouse where the paranormal happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” was bought by a Mexico couple in 2019.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Lewiston Police identify suspect sought in Tuesday’s shooting
Abdirahman “Gino” Duale, 21, is wanted in connection with the Tuesday morning shooting that wounded an unidentified man.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation / World
Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to tour in US, Europe
The Boss is hitting the road again.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion, Perspective
Declining birth rates are unhealthy for hospitals and society
When St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center announced this month it was discontinuing its maternity health services due to declining births and working closely with Central Maine Medical Center to have the latter absorb its staff and patients, my first thought was, “Wow, we’ve come a long way from the days when the two hospitals, once […]
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Serialized mystery: The Headless Skeleton
In the fall of 1873, a Lewiston woodcutter stumbled upon a headless skeleton and a tattered black dress lying beside some pine trees near the city’s most romantic drive. This series, published in weekly chapters on Sundays, tells the story.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Biden wants corporations to pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure plans
The corporate tax was created on the principle that people and companies should be taxed based on what they receive in benefits – and US corporations have received an awful lot.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Jeff Bezos spars with Biden White House over inflation
The Amazon founder attacked Biden’s economic policy record.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
You can buy a Rockland house for $1 but you have to move it from the property
Homeowner says if there are no takers she will have to tear down the house overlooking the South End waterfront.
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Watch Great Falls Forum: 175 Years of Recorded History — Through Journalism
Sun Journal Reporter Steve Collins and Androscoggin Historical Society Director and Treasurer David Chittim take a look at notable events in Androscoggin County and the journalism that brought those events to light.