The Oxford Helping Hands Food Pantry would like to thank 5-year-old Liliana Tripp, and her parents, for the generous donation of food, money and gift cards. We were amazed at what one little girl could do when she put her mind to it. It will go a long way towards helping our hungry friends and […]

How about a big thank you to Kathy Montejo, Lewiston’s wonderful city clerk, and her hard-working staff and volunteers for another successful election season. My husband and I have every confidence in this team, that our votes will be counted with great care and accuracy even during an election like this one, with thousands of […]

Thank the lord, it appears that Trump’s four years of divisiveness are over, and that Rep. Golden won reelection. That hopefully dampens Paul LePage’s appetite to subject Maine to more of his own brand of discord, which would distract us from fighting a winning battle against COVID-19 which, while painful, must be fought. Governor Mills […]

I would like to thank the women shopping at Kohls on Tuesday, Nov. 3, who helped me when I fell in the store. I thought my Rollator brakes were locked in place, but apparently they were not. I lost my balance and tried to sit down, but ended up slipping off the seat and onto […]

To all my friends and neighbors in Maine House District 116, a very sincere “thank you.” I asked them for a fourth and final House term, and they resoundingly showed their approval of my work. I have spent six years listening to their ideas and fighting hard to bring our blended viewpoints to Augusta. Our […]

The election is over. It is imperative for people to consider ways to reconnect and work together to tackle the challenges that this country and this world face. Disasters of any kind do not take into account people’s political views. There is common ground for everyone to support the search for workable ways to mitigate […]

I applaud the Lewiston School Committee for retaining school resource officers within the School Department. SROs working within Lewiston and Androscoggin County school systems provide opportunities to safely educate all students to take responsibility for actions, to manage that responsibility within a civilized society, and to maintain methods that allow students to form as adults […]

I attended the Regional School Unit 9 board meeting on Oct. 27 through Zoom. I watched and listened with dismay to the teachers as they spoke of the problems they are experiencing while working with no contract in conditions that are substandard. Teachers have a huge job before them, and have the students’ well-being and […]

I read in the Oct. 29 Sun Journal about the new planned revamped Route 4 in East Auburn by the causeway. The engineers said in the article that while the speed limit is posted at 40 mph on that section of road, the actual speeds are closer to 60 mph. It’s like when the drivers […]

This is a request to President Trump and any other national politicians who downplay the coronavirus pandemic: please, while COVID-19 is with us, don’t come to Maine. We already have plenty of folks here who don’t keep a safe distance, and enter and roam about in stores having big clear signs at the door “Masks […]