Mystery Photo for January 20, 2019 If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at bmail@sunjournal.com or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Donnelly of Westbrook. Harvesting Hearts . . . (For Dennis Camire and Dave Moreau) By Jim Donnelly I’m harvesting hearts at the all night gas and variety and the dearth, despite the well-stocked shelves of that thing most vital we need for […]
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Snowbirds! Love ’em or hate ’em, they’ve stopped Maine winters cold
Readers are sleeping in their trucks, couch surfing and buying new homes in order to find warm-weather refuge in the South.
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Face Time: Johnny Mehler, busy wedding photographer, rescue dog dad
Johnny Mehler moved to Maine in 2013 to pursue a sports reporting career. Today, he’s a marketing specialist for Spectrum Healthcare Partners, an Uplift LA 40 Under 40 creative genius nominee, a busy photographer and a proud dog dad. Name: Johnny Mehler Age: 29 Lives: South Portland How did you get into sportscasting? I loved playing […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Patricia Smith Ranzoni, poet laureate of Bucksport. THE SWAMP’S FROZEN SOLID By Patricia Smith Ranzoni But the raven yells to me all the more from atop the pointed evergreens. “What did you bring,” he wants to know. He and the eagle will vie […]
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At Lisbon care facility, virtual reality takes elders anywhere they want to go
LISBON — For a few minutes, 87-year-old Mary Crowell found freedom on the space shuttle. Seated in a rolling office chair, a pair of virtual reality goggles over her eyes, she swiveled around and tilted her face up. “Oh,” she breathed, “that’s pretty.” “What are you looking at?” asked Carrie Wilson, recreational therapist and activity […]
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Mystery Photo for January 13
If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at bmail@sunjournal.com or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo online at www.sunjournal.com/bplus.
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Shopping ideas best left for dead
So I’ll start by saying I have no clue what “manties” are and we’ll just go from there. Several weeks ago during a bit of forced e-cleaning, Bag Lady had a Mark LaFlamme moment. Oh, no fear — the fake feds aren’t after me and I’m not fleeing the casserole scourge — however, I did […]
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Face Time: Lewiston bookstore owner and book lover Courtney Schlachter
She loves books. She knows about book sales. And she’s even writing a book. So it’s no surprise we found Courtney Schlachter in a bookstore — her own — more than willing to talk books. Here’s her own story. Name: Courtney Schlachter Age: 37 Town: Lewiston Family: Husband Adam, son Eli, daughter Quinn, cats Chloe […]
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Mystery Photo for January 6
Mystery photo for January 6, 2019. (Sun Journal Photo by Russ Dillingham) If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at bmail@sunjournal.com or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets […]