Vanessa Paolella is a staff writer at the Sun Journal primarily covering local education. Before joining the Sun Journal in 2021, she interned for the paper twice and led the Bates College student newspaper, The Bates Student. Vanessa graduated from Bates College with a bachelor of science in geology in 2021 and wrote her senior thesis on water quality changes in the Androscoggin River from 1930 to 2019.
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PublishedJune 28, 2022
Longley school partially reopens, cleanup is ongoing
On Tuesday, students and staff in Lewiston’s adult education program were in the building for testing, according to Superintendent Jake Langlais. The NextSTEP side of the building has not yet been reopened.
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PublishedJune 27, 2022
Thirty-five years ago, her class buried a time capsule. Now, a former Lewiston teacher reflects on the best years of her teaching career
While Montello’s time capsule may be the most enduring initiative from Chloe Giampaolo’s 30-year teaching career, it was by no means her only notable endeavor.
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PublishedJune 25, 2022
Lisbon Town Council approves $10.4 million municipal budget
The 11.9% increase is primarily due to rising costs and more municipal positions.
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PublishedJune 23, 2022
Lisbon Town Council directs staff to write cannabis moratorium
If enacted, new cannabis businesses will be prohibited from opening for the duration of the moratorium.
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PublishedJune 22, 2022
Bates College president announces plans to leave in 2023
When Clayton Spencer leaves the college in June 2023, she will have led the liberal arts institution for 11 years.
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PublishedJune 22, 2022
Four Lewiston children charged with felonies in Longley School vandalism
Two 12-year-olds, a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old were charged with burglary and aggravated criminal mischief.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1989: Americans have a real love affair with the phone
It’s official. The government says we’re spending too much time on the phone.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1983: ‘Information please…’ The operators know all
While constantly plugging new connections into the switchboard in front of them and timing long-distance calls, the two operators at the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. must also be authorities on all kinds of local information.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Western Maine town the last to use hand-crank phones in the U.S.
‘The lure of high-tech, touch-tone and total privacy won out in a two-year battle with nostalgia and the human element,’ announced the Sunday Sun Journal. ‘The crank phone is dead. Long live call forwarding.’
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Telephone service spread fast in Lewiston and Maine after Bell’s breakthrough
Lewiston installed its first phone line just a year after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone in 1876.
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