Sun Journal

19/08/2025

This year festivalgoers saw balloons fly as well, with three full launches and a partial one, along with tethered balloon rides popular with families and children. Compared to the year prior, which saw balloons grounded for its entirety, the festival was deemed a rousing success by organizers.

The Lewiston-Auburn Balloon Festival had three full launches, plus tethered balloons and more, making it a success both in the air and on the ground, officials say.

18/08/2025

As a top federal health official, Dr. Nirav Shah said he witnessed how the transition to the Trump administration resulted in what he described as attacks on the nation’s public health systems.

Maine's former top health official is among the medical professionals who are raising alarms about the dismantling of everything from how the annual flu shot is approved to cuts in prevention programs and vaccine research.

18/08/2025

The town denied the owner’s request in 2024 and the owner’s appeal of that denial will come before the Farmington Board of Assessment Review on Sept. 3. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. at the Town Office, 153 Farmington Falls Road.

The owners of the building at 144 High St. in Farmington want a lower assessment than the town's $1.26 million valuation for the building and land.

18/08/2025

The search comes after current Chief David St. Pierre announced his September retirement earlier this month after 33 years in Lewiston’s police department.

The city will set up a five-person advisory committee and hold a public input session on Aug. 26.

18/08/2025

French Canadian migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries helped to create lasting francophone communities across Maine.

18/08/2025

Two undocumented immigrants were detained by ICE Friday, police said, after a vehicle traveling on Park Street jumped the curb, striking and killing a Massachusetts woman.

18/08/2025

Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-winning journalist Tom Ricks, hosted by reporter Ray Routhier. Ricks will discuss his latest book, We Can’t Save You, and how Maine shapes his storytelling.

Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. at One Longfellow Square https://www.tickets207.com/events/facebook-199352

Can’t make it in person? Our sponsor, Northern Light Health, makes livestreaming available for all Maine Voices Live programming.

18/08/2025

Dozens of Mainers at a public forum Friday explained how proposed health insurance rate hikes could put their families at risk.

17/08/2025

"Gerrymandering, the deliberate manipulation of electoral district boundaries to favor one political party, is nothing less than the quiet sabotage of our republic," writes David Moisan in an op-ed.

"It is the practice of politicians choosing their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians. And it is happening at a scale that would make the architects of our democracy shudder."

Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around. We need independent redistricting commissions now.

17/08/2025

If you can identify where this photo was taken, your entry will be put into a drawing for a $25 gift card courtesy of Hannaford Supermarkets.

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

17/08/2025

Balloons took flight Saturday morning over Lewiston-Auburn while the parade turned heads.

See photos from the festivities.

Balloons took flight Saturday morning over Lewiston-Auburn while the parade turned heads.

17/08/2025

Law enforcement experts say cheap, sometimes tainted w**d grown by Chinese criminal groups is getting into the state's medical market. Business owners say it's cratering market rates and pushing reputable growers out of the industry.