An extraordinary resolve and resiliency brought parents and children back to a youth bowling league shattered when a gunman fired on bowlers — including several adults and about 18 children involved in the league — at Just-In-Time the night of Oct. 25, 2023.
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Anvil Falls; A year of ups and downs
Ernie Anderson is an award-winning cartoonist and the creator of Anvil Falls — which has been running in the Sun Journal on Sundays since February 2023. He got his start in newsprint media in 2012, producing editorial cartoons and illustrations for the Sun Journal, and in 2014 and 2015 his cartoons took first place at […]
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Photo Album: Area students make thank you gifts for first responders
Cards and gifts are to given to first responders in Lewiston and Auburn on Friday as a thank you for their response to the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting.
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Kids drive push to continue bowling league in year after it was upended
The young bowlers, their parents and coaches say the league is like a family and they’ve helped each other through ongoing struggles.
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Creating a memorial to the mass shooting not expected to be easy
Those working on a memorial have many questions and few answers.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Sports serve a greater purpose for Lewiston and Auburn athletes and coaches since shooting
One year after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, athletes and others share memories of Oct. 25, 2023, the ways they’ve coped with grief, found happiness through teammates and honored the victims.
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Watch: Lewiston ceremony honors the Oct. 25 victims
The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6 p.m. and is scheduled to go until 7:30 p.m.
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Finding the light in darkness: Goodness was found amid evil of Oct. 25, pastor says
‘I believe in the good. You have to be on the side of good and light,’ the Rev. Daniel Greenleaf said.
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At Sliders, cornhole players quietly observing Oct. 25
The players might talk about that grim night now and then, but they tend to do it in private circles. This band of cornhole players like to keep things to the inner circle.
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A year after the Lewiston mass shooting, six portraits of grief
18 people were killed, 13 were shot and survived, and many others witnessed the deadliest attack in Maine’s history. A year later, we look at how some have navigated the aftermath.