Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carolyn Locke of Troy Maine. How It Happens By Carolyn Locke She’s different every day, This morning, she’s the sparrow you half glimpse in the hedgerow. You try not to startle her, take quiet, gentle steps. Still, just when you think you’re close […]
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Face Time: Musician Linda Vaillancourt's forte? Teaching
In 2005, Lewiston’s Linda Vaillancourt took on a part-time job as North Yarmouth Academy’s band and orchestra director. By that point, she had been teaching music at various districts across the state, but NYA was a good match for her and in 2013, her position became full-time. In May, surprising no one but Vaillancourt herself, […]
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A new chef takes Nezinscot Farm’s well-known variety of local, fresh food and boosts its unique vibe
If you’ve never ventured east off Route 4 at the intersection of Route 117 in Turner, you are missing some great food, a bit of bliss and maybe even some magic. Nezinscot Farm has covered a lot of ground in the more than 30 years Gregg and Gloria Varney have owned this third-generation family farm. […]
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Mystery Photo for July 8
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 Anna Wrobel of Westbrook, who co-curates the monthly Lowry’s Lodge Reading Series. This Close By Anna Wrobel To be this close to woodpeckers walking backwards catbirds calling out to friends goldenrod not making me sneeze to earth and grass almost unknown as an urban […]
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Casco Bay’s Mackworth Island: A place to feel ‘the slow circles of nature’
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back in the slow circles of nature, is a help.” That quote comes from a posthumous publishing of the journals of May Sarton, the Belgian-born, Massachusetts-raised poet and memoirist who spent her later years living and writing in York, Maine. While Sarton wrote […]
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The Sun Journal weekly Mystery Photo for July 1, 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 […]
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Face Time: Cardiologist Patrick Hohl, from Maine to Rwanda
As a volunteer with nonprofit Team Heart, Maine cardiologist Patrick Hohl travels to Rwanda once a year to help people who suffer from rheumatic heart disease and need heart valve replacement. Although the disease is rare in the United States, it’s a significant problem in Rwanda — a situation made worse considering the country has […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ellen Taylor of Appleton, department chair of humanities at the University of Maine at Augusta. Resting Place By Ellen Taylor Burly white Percheron, he laid like a fallen cloud in a trough behind the pole barn, his spine against the earth, his legs stretched […]
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Road Trip Quiz: How much do you know about Maine?
Pack your bags! The Sun Journal’s 6th annual Summer Road Trip Quiz is ready to depart. It’s that time of year again! Time to fill your brains with trivia and take in sweet Maine-related sights while learning about long-forgotten battles, all-knowing lobsters and whether or not Maine has ties to Freddy Krueger and “A Nightmare […]