Where the wild things are So at the suggestion of many of you yahoos, I went out the other day in search of the mighty multi-colored zebra that was being painted on the side of a downtown Lewiston parking garage. Unfortunately, when I started this safari, I didn’t bother to ask for a location. You […]
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Gordon — Dumond
Alex Dumond and Emily Gordon AUBURN — Wade and Ann Gordon of Gorham are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Emily Gordon, to Alex Dumond, son of Don Dumond and Angie Brown of Auburn and Pam Joy of Skagway, Alaska. Miss Gordon is a 2008 graduate of Mt. Abram High School and a 2010 graduate […]
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A tribute to Charles Krauthammer
I have often thought that tributes to those we love are best made when the object of our affection is still with us, rather than at their funerals. I do not know Charles Krauthammer well, though we would occasionally see each other at Fox News when I worked there and at Washington Nationals baseball games. […]
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White — Irving
Mark and Bonnie Jo Irving PERU — Bonnie Jo White, daughter of Joseph and Rebecah White of Rumford, and Mark Kenneth Irving, son of Kenneth and Ramona Irving of Clinton, were united in marriage on Saturday, Jan. 20, at the United Baptist Church of Peru. Pastor Shepard Swain performed the double ring ceremony. The bride […]
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Ronald Paul Ouellette
LEWISTON — Ronald Paul Ouellette, 70, left us to reside in heaven with Jesus on Friday, June 1. He was born July 9, 1947, in Lewiston, to Armand and Lucille Ouellette. Ron earned his registered nurse certification after graduating from Lewiston High School. He and Donna Bechard operated the Ouellette Adult Foster Home for 30 years. […]
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Taxpayers foot bill for early college credits
Edward Little High School juniors Madeline Duff, left, and Sophie Bilodeau are taking online college classes this summer through Husson University. In their senior year of high school, they will enroll at Central Maine Community College full time to earn college credit before they graduate from EL. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) More Maine students are earning […]
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Work it all out
There are two kinds of people, those who . . . You’ve heard those words a hundred times, spoken by someone who wants to distinguish between, say, Type A (driven) and Type B (laid back) people, or between those who, say, get up early and those who would pummel those who rise early. Around here, […]
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U.S. has sunk to state-sponsored cruelty
What if God were one of us? Singer Joan Osborne famously asked that question in 1995. In her Grammy-nominated hit, “One Of Us,” she envisions the author of all creation as “a slob like one of us, just a stranger on a bus trying to make his way home.” The idea of eternity contained in […]
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China the biggest winner from Trump-Kim summit
LONDON — “America will remain the world’s dominant power in the 21st century only if it is the dominant Pacific power,” the late Lee Kuan Yew often said to me. Lee, the founder of modern Singapore and one of the smartest strategic minds I have ever encountered, spoke about this issue late in life as […]
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Give Trump’s team a chance to work on North Korea deal
WASHINGTON — Well, that didn’t take long. President Trump had barely departed Singapore when Democrats in Washington unleashed scathing attacks over his meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. “What the United States has gained is vague and unverifiable at best. What North Korea has gained, however, is tangible and lasting,” Senate Minority Leader […]