NORWAY – The Planning Board voted Thursday evening to approve a site plan application for Moss Brook Church, which is looking to move into the former Grover Gundrilling building on Aldrich Avenue. Mike Booker, pastor of the church, said Moss Brook Church has been meeting at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School auditorium in Paris […]
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Posted inSchools & Education, sj-web
Work ongoing at Spruce Mountain Elementary School
LIVERMORE FALLS – The Regional School Unit 73 board last Thursday received construction and program updates, and approved a job description for a registrar at the high school. The renovation project at Spruce Mountain Elementary School is progressing, but work will continue into the school year. The kitchen equipment and cafeteria tables have not arrived, with delivery […]
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Final leg in Triple Crown Series
More than 1,000 people signed up for Sunday morning’s 5K Bridge Run, the last in the Triple Crown Series road races whose goals are to create a better sense of community, promote healthy activities and raise support for and awareness of three partnering charitable organizations: the Auburn-Lewiston YMCA, the Fletcher Foundation and the Bridge Run […]
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Driver injured when vehicle hits pole
An Auburn woman had to be removed through the windshield of her car Sunday morning after the automobile went off Witham Road in Auburn and hit a utility pole. Police said the driver, Sandra Baxby, 67, might have fallen asleep. Sgt. Gary Boulet of the Auburn Police Department said the accident looked bad, but Baxby was OK. Boulet said Baxby was taken to […]
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Rumford reserve officer dies in plane crash
RUMFORD — A Rumford reserve police officer was killed Friday in a plane crash in Massachusetts, according to Rumford police. Investigators say Scott Landis, 34, and his brother Patrick, 29, were flying over Hanson, Massachusetts, to spread the ashes of their father, who died recently of cancer. Airport officials in Massachusetts said they believe the brothers’ plane had […]
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Mexico's delicacy is my childhood monster
I’m about to confront my darkest demon, and it looks just like a plate of delicious corn risotto. On the surface, there wouldn’t seem to be a problem. I love corn. I love rice. I love cheese. But also on the surface, quite literally, are little gray dots. The server explains that they’re made from […]
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CMP project to benefit Lewiston
The Sun Journal article on the forum held to discuss Central Maine Power’s New England Clean Energy Connect Project (Aug. 23) did a decent job of presenting information both favoring and opposing this project. Unfortunately, the headline presented a biased picture and may well mislead those who did not read the entire article. Other potential […]
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Mystery Photo for August 26
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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The pope must follow through on call for action about abuses
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis’s recent letter to the Catholic faithful was remarkable in that the Holy Father apologized not only for the sexual abuses carried out by Roman Catholic priests but also for the coverup of that abuse carried out by Roman Catholic bishops. “The heart-wrenching pain of these victims, which cries out to heaven, […]
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Family disagrees about table manners
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have a disagreement about when a person should be allowed to get up from the table. We have an 8-month-old son whom we both want to grow up to have good manners. We know he’ll soon be out of his high chair and become squirmy and not want to […]