SeniorsPlus offers variety of classes for February

LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus has announced its Online Education Center classes for February. Due to the pandemic and CDC guidelines, all classes are held virtually. Classes and workshops are free, unless noted. Register by emailing edcenter@seniorsplus.org or calling 207-795-4010 or 1-800-427-1241. Classes Banking in 2021: From 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Zoom, instructor, Kendra […]

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Mid Maine Vettes Corvette Club elects 2021 officers

Rich Lowry: ‘Free speech for me, but not for thee’

Journalists have lurched from finding a threat to freedom to the press in every criticism of reporters and news outlets by former President Donald Trump to themselves calling for unwelcome media organizations to be shut down.

In rebuttal: Don Prince: Justice needs to be served to Trump

I would like to respond to Mary Jones’ Jan. 20 letter. She emphasizes the “power of the word,” but overlooks how that power was misused by our former president. He called reporters “enemies of the people.” He called a peaceful Black protester a “son of a bitch.” After the racist Charlotte “rally” resulting in the […]

Service projects, events to celebrate Catholic Schools Week

PORTLAND — Activities organized to celebrate the fun, faith and family that define Maine’s Catholic schools highlight the Catholic Schools Week schedules across the state on Sunday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, but teachers and administrators hope that it’s the ways in which the students will give back that will provide the most […]

James Cogan: Media is ‘prime pillar’ of freedom, democracy

Far from being the enemy of the people, the news media is a prime pillar of freedom and democracy. When the Sun Journal reports facts, it intends to present accurate information and generally succeeds. Likewise the information arms of the Washington Post, New York Times, Portland Press Herald, the Globe, the AP, the BBC, PBS, […]

Francophone women’s group meets online

LEWISTON — The Center for Wisdom’s Women invites all French-speaking women to join the community French conversation group now meeting remotely on Zoom at 5 p.m. every Wednesday. It is intended to be a (remote) gathering space for women to speak French together, and through doing so, share topics related to womanhood, culture, family and […]

Rotary Club announces line-up of winter monthly speakers

BRIDGTON — The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club is meeting virtually at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays through Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club has structured its meetings to allow for its many committees to share their plans, accomplishments and concerns with the whole membership at the beginning of each of four monthly meetings. However, it is […]

Leonard Pitts Jr.: No way to ‘unite’ with racism, anti-Semitism or homophobia

Democracy is fragile, and we’ve come closer to losing it than any generation since Lincoln’s. We all should want to answer Biden’s call to save it. But we all should also understand that it cannot be and it will not be saved at the expense of those who have too often and for too long been shut out of America’s lofty ideals. We, too, sing America. Let the GOP learn to accept this. Then “unity” will take care of itself.