AUBURN — Amy Jose grew up in Oakland and lived in Portland the last five years before buying a home in Auburn last year. “Auburn felt like kind of a good balance,” said Jose, 25, who works as an integrated marketing specialist for Spectrum Healthcare Partners. “We (Spectrum) sponsor the Dempsey Challenge, so I was […]
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Safiya Khalid: A calling to make change
LEWISTON — Safiya Said Khalid campaigned for a seat on the city’s school board as a junior in college. She didn’t get it, but she’s not done running. And Khalid, a 2014 Lewiston High School grad, wants to help others run in the meantime. “I was doing a full-time job, full-time school and I saw […]
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Larissa Brown: Helping with life's struggles
POLAND — When she graduated from Gray-New Gloucester High School, Larissa Brown headed to the University of Southern Maine unsure what field she’d go in. Two years later, working a full-time job and looking for classes she could fit in around her work, she found it. “I ended up kind of serendipitously taking the intro to […]
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Kaitlin Gallagher: Expert in ‘smile acquisitions’
LEWISTON — Kaitlin Gallagher went to college thinking she’d come out an FBI profiler, but ruled that out by graduation — the job didn’t have the same appeal. That’s when she saw a “now hiring” sign at the Sears Portrait Studio at the Bangor Mall. She got the job on the spot. Eight years later, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Marden's, ho!
Bag Lady hadn’t been to Marden’s in f-o-r-e-v-e-r. OK, fine. We did shop for tights there in April, fleetingly. Doesn’t count. It wasn’t perused, it wasn’t savored, it wasn’t oh-my-toast-there’s-two-racks-of-J.Jill-for-$9.99. Because oh-my-toast, it’s true. Marden’s is the sort of store that demands to be strolled at least every six months, and what better time than now, […]
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Face Time: Stefanie Mahr Damien — Sewing, designing and predicting the next hot shade
Stefanie Mahr Damien moved to Maine in 2015 after falling in love with an Auburn man. She started Refresh, an interior design, staging and sewing company now in the Pepperell Mill, the next year. She talks design, sewing corn costumes, selling Jaguars and gently steering people away from a case of the color regrets. Name: […]
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Mystery Photo for September 30
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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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by former Maine poet laureate Betsy Sholl. The poem originally appeared in “The Cafe Review.” Elegy With Spiders For Michael Macklin By Betsy Sholl Six months after you died, spiders fill the field, gleaming in early sun, having spun all night their bright God’s-eyes, those […]
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Talk of the town: Your Yankee Doodle Dandy in a gold Rolls Royce
Campaign season hell As a sort of reporter, I get put on to all kinds of lists so I get mail from every political candidate from one end of the state to the other. It’s a real joy, especially during campaign season. You think campaign signs are a blight? You ought to see my email […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Michalene Hague of Otisfield. You Asked By Michalene Hague Give me silence – moments of snow, wind-rippled like drifting desert sand, hollows carved like couches for contemplation. Give me quiet – minutes of fresh-cut grass, its fragrance filling the space of spring, before, like […]