Gratuities: Have we reached a tipping point?

Mainers say tipping has gotten out of hand. Many blame COVID for causing big change in the business of small change.

Still love books after all these years?

Picklers unite! Local pickleball is big and getting bigger

'This is a game for anyone,' says George 'Flip' Gosselin. 'Out here, everyone fits in. You don't have to be a superstar to play this game.'

Pickleball terminology

Sound like you know your stuff when you go out to the pickleball courts for the first time

Think you know Maine? Put your trivia skills to the test

‘A passion for pets’: With animals needing good homes, there’s no dogging it at the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society

'It's such a teamwork environment that it's more like a family around here, and I feel like we make a huge impact on not only our team's lives, but the animals' lives.'

‘Comics by people with day jobs:’ Maine comic artists and illustrators drawn into another world

The artists' reasons are many: 'To improve. For therapy. To scratch an itch. To avoid doing other things sometimes. For most of us, there's nothing else we'd rather be doing.' 

Face Time: Joe Charpentier — New kid on the news block. Sort of.

The Sun Journal's new spot news reporter comes via Down East, Farmington, Wales (the country), Massachusetts and more, acquiring experience needed for even the toughest weather story.

A home at the ‘Drome — Memories were made, lives changed at Auburn’s Rollodrome

Readers reminisce about how they rolled at the iconic skating rink, which is up for sale. 'Everyone looked forward to going to the Rollodrome. It was a part of life.'

‘Get dirty going fast:’ Grown-up toys and the ‘kids’ who play with them

More adults have toys, or at least admit to it. One possible reason: With calamity seemingly just around the next corner, if we don't have something to occupy our minds now and then, why we might go collectively mad, and there's no fun in that at all.