Hey, have you heard about that place that sells cars really cheap? They get the prices down by leaving the engine out. I’m gonna go get one. What a deal! Well, I’m back. I got a super bargain — got one with no engine and no wheels. Um, uh-oh, it just occurred to me that […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Too many assessment tests
This is a response to Bill Webster’s guest column about the MEA tests (June 18). I find his change in opinion on that test very interesting. As a parent, I have spent the past five years advocating that school leaders take a hard look at the over-testing of students. Much of what Webster discussed in […]
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Maintain civil attitudes
I am writing to express my concern about the proposed merger of Lewiston and Auburn. I feel that it is a bad idea to merge the two cities. Both sides have been working together just fine for decades. I can’t believe how some people who want the merger have turned to name-calling and have been […]
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Kindred spirits write
The article in the Sun Journal about St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Lewiston (June 18) struck a nerve with our family and friends of St. Ann’s Orphanage in Worcester, Massachusetts. Talk about brother and sister connections. We, too, were “cared for” by the Grey Nuns (Sisters of Charity). The article is a mirror image of what many […]
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Opportunity for growth
Change is always difficult for people to accept, but with common sense and understanding, people can begin to accept change. Through the years, the city councilors from both Lewiston and Auburn commissioned studies to try to find ways the two cities could work together to save money, but when it came to implementing, it was […]
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The need for urgent care
I was saddened to hear that CMMC Urgent Care in Auburn was closing (Sun Journal, June 15). I understand about making a profit, but smiled when spokeswoman Ericka Dodge indicated that the hospital found many Urgent Care visitors were already patients within the CMH system and should be seeing their primary care doctor. Everyone knows […]
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Care for veterans deteriorating
I am a Navy airman from the Vietnam War. I receive all my medical care at the VA hospital in Togus. Since new medical laws came out (which I have read, all eight pages), I have found about 10 things the doctors are supposed to do and are not. My medications used to come on […]
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Let's not forget them
I am proud of the Sun Journal’s decision to publish the stories of the former residents of St Joseph’s Orphanage (June 18). Several years ago, I interviewed a number of those women for the Franco-American collection at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College. It was a heart-rending experience to hear what they had gone through and how they […]
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Uphold the will of the people
In November, the people of Maine chose to adopt a ranked-choice voting (RCV) system that better reflects the will of the people. RCV promotes the inclusion of a more diverse set of candidates for public office and, in time, will help to ease the divisiveness that plagues the current political system. The recent Maine Supreme […]
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Laws of the road not enforced
Where have patrol patrol cars gone? How does anyone tell if traffic is watched in some areas, but not in others? I travel 50 miles to work and 50 miles home. I see cars passing on solid lines, on curves, on hills and even when cars are coming the other way. Excessive speed is the […]