Loaves & Fishes mission increases during challenges of pandemic

SABATTUS — For a ministry with a sole mission of aiding people in crisis in the Sabattus area, Loaves & Fishes — operated by the Dominican Sisters, OP — has faced challenges during the pandemic. Located at the Sisters’ convent on Lisbon Road, Loaves & Fishes has provided food and clothing to those in need […]

Well done news for Saturday, Feb. 6

Husson University announces area honors list students BANGOR — The following area students have been named to the fall 2020 honors list at Husson University. Students who make the list must carry at least 12 graded credit hours during the semester and earn a grade point average of 3.4 to 3.59 during the period. Ashleigh […]

Cartoon for Saturday, Feb. 6

Bigs, Littles to be virtually ‘in the stands’ at Super Bowl

LEWISTON — Bates College Big Brothers and Big Sisters and their Littles from Connors Elementary School will be fans “in the stands” at Super Bowl LV — albeit in photo cut-outs — representing Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine at the big game in Tampa on Sunday, Feb. 6. The project is part of a […]

Leonard Pitts Jr.: It is different, being us

But it is different, being us. Because for as much as people pretend otherwise, the thing that most defines us as “Black” is not common skin tone nor even common ancestry. Rather, it is common experience – all of us having gone through some variation of the same old story of denial and denigration.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The triumph of ignorance

Today, ideologues on every side rely on ignorance, often building an entire ideology on one fact. Or worse, one factoid.

Peg Hoffman: Change state tax code to strengthen economy

This year Maine lawmakers will have the opportunity to change our state tax code, to ensure we can recover from the pandemic and make our economy stronger for everyone. We need to return to fairness, where working families are not paying more taxes than wealthy Mainers; where large corporations — that have benefited the most […]

Ellen Field: ‘Other Republicans’ are ‘stealing the party’

We know that QAnon, the Proud Boys, and other Trump followers believe everything Trump says, no matter how obviously false, but it’s still shocking to see a gang of domestic terrorists in MAGA hats (not antifa or BLM) trying to wreck the U.S. Capitol. Some of these “patriots” were trying to find and kill Nancy […]

Pinewood Derby goes virtual

Gregory Foster: Difference between ‘real racism,’ ‘harmless commentary’

It is so sad that the critics of former Selectman George Colby of New Gloucester are so incapable of identifying the difference between real racism and harmless commentary. Those critics themselves may someday become victim of an inaccurately redefined term that they use. And, if George’s statement is so bad, why did the Lewiston Sun […]