LISBON — Master guitarist and singer-songwriter Denny Breau will perform on Saturday, May 19, at the Railroad Pub in Lisbon Falls from noon to 3 p.m. Breau is a triple threat: a consummate picker, evocative songwriter and a singer with a voice that is warm and inviting but completely unpretentious— much like the singer himself. […]
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Video: New playing fields near Lewiston High School taking shape
Employees of Northeast Turf lay down artificial turf on the new football field at Lewiston High School on Tuesday. The multipurpose field is one of three new playing fields and one track that school staff hope will be ready at the start of the 2018 school year. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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RAAPA serves up dinner and a murder mystery
RUMFORD — The Rumford Association for the Advancement of the Performing Arts is bringing another of its widely popular Murder Mystery Dinner Theater events to the River Valley on Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26, at the Eagles Hall in Rumford. This year you’ll be taken to the deep South to witness the mayhem caused by Prescott Knight, […]
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Poliquin says $5B cut to kids' health program is unspent money
Just a few months after approving a six-year extension of the Child Health Insurance Program that serves about 23,000 Maine minors, Congress may strip $7 billion from funds it already approved for the program. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a Republican from Maine’s 2nd District, is among the co-sponsors of a measure that would rescind the […]
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LeClaires in free Livermore concert
The LeClaires perform at the Celebration Christian Festival in 2017. The LaClaires will be in concert at the North Livermore Baptist Church on Saturday, May 19, at 7 p.m. for the band’s annual concert, and the release of CD number 13. The public is welcome to this free concert. Phil and Ellen LaClaire have a passion […]
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Argo sold; Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque plans new venture
LEWISTON — Fifteen years after starting the company from a laptop on his couch, Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque announced Tuesday that he has sold Argo Contact Centers to Georgia-based ITC Capital Partners for an undisclosed amount. Levesque said Argo’s 300 jobs, including about 200 in Lewiston, will stay here and that selling was best for […]
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'Right Stuff' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88. Wolfe’s literary agent, Lynn Nesbit, told […]
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LePage signs letter backing Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and a group of fellow governors are backing President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing what they called Trump’s “transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.” In a letter this week to Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen, McMaster and six […]
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Melania Trump expected to remain hospitalized through week
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump was expected to remain hospitalized for the rest of the week following a “long-planned” procedure to treat a benign kidney condition, White House officials said. Mrs. Trump, 48, had an embolization procedure Monday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, her staff said. President Donald […]
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Crash on turnpike backs up traffic for miles between Scarborough and Saco
A crash on the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough caused significant traffic delays Tuesday morning. The multi-vehicle crash was reported before 8 a.m. near Mile 40 northbound, between the Saco and Scarborough exits. Traffic backed up for at least six miles while first responders responded to the crash. The crash scene was cleared by about 9:15 […]