“Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” Christopher Matthews, that’s who. Since the game show first launched in the U.S. 19 years ago, the Lewiston man has been scheming to become a contestant. That’s nearly two decades of working the phones, studying trivia and traveling back and forth to New York. Matthews has gotten close. A […]
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Mystery Photo for August 19
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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Mystery Photo for August 12
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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Berry good, berry quick
Have some guests drop in unexpectedly? And just happen to have some blueberries in the fridge? Treat your friends to a cup of coffee and some baby blueberry streusel bundt cakes from Kathy Wakile and Miriam Harris’ “Indulge: Delicious Little Desserts That Keep Life Real Sweet,” from St. Martin’s Press. Makes 2 dozen cakes To […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Mike Bove, who teaches at Southern Maine Community College. Great Aunt June Saves the World By Mike Bove On the banks of the Androscoggin they lived in a shack. Frost between wood slats, a paltry wall between winter and themselves: children with absent parents, still […]
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Face Time: Kevin Gagne and Scout, partners in policing
Lewiston Police Officer Kevin Gagne has had a dog before. But a dog as a partner? That’s something different. And Scout, a yellow Lab, is a different kind of police dog. Unlike some of the other, more aggressive K-9s, Scout is a sniffer, not a fighter. She’s been trained since puppyhood for life as a […]
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Wiscasset’s Castle Tucker
Once home to a congressman and a sea captain, 200-year-old Castle Tucker offers a close-up look at the not-always-grand life of the Tucker family in the 1800s. WISCASSET — Mollie Tucker moved into what would become Castle Tucker overlooking the Sheepscot River in 1858, a 16-year-old wife and young mother with a 43-year-old retired sea […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jefferson Navicky of Freeport. His most recent book is “The Paper Coast,” published by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Chest poem By Jefferson Navicky In the house that lives in my chest there’s a long sloping hallway and there’s an owl in the kitchen who serves […]
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Mystery Photo for August 5, 2018.
Mystery Photo for August 5, 2018. 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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Mystery Photo for July 29
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. Mystery photo for […]