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Terrance Leavitt of Millinocket, deputy commander of the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, salutes the Knights of Columbus color guard as it passes during the L & A Veterans Council's Musical Tribute to Veterans at the Lewiston Armory on Wednesday morning.

Charges

Auburn

• Jaime Lee Austin, 31, of 341 Turner St. on a charge of disorderly conduct, 11:24 p.m. Tuesday at that address.

Accidents

Auburn

• Vehicles driven by Raymond Michael Stanfield, 24, of South Paris and Paul J. Desmond, 56, of Norton, Mass., collided at 4:30 a.m. Friday at Court Street and Minot Avenue. Damage to the 2001 Mitsubishi driven by Stanfield and owned by Charles Benjamin Biggers of Paris was estimated at $7,000 and was towed; to Desmond's 2007 Peterbilt flatbed truck, $100.

LEWISTON — Several hundred people cheered past and present veterans at a ceremony to dedicate the 18th memorial stone at Veterans Memorial Park on Wednesday afternoon. The Veterans Day event capped a full day of activities in the Twin Cities, and good weather brought out people of all ages.

Many veterans wore caps and jackets emblazoned with names, including USS Yellowstone, USS Roanoke, USS Canberra, USS Forrestal and USS Brownson, as well as sites such as the former Sampson Air Force Base in New York and organizations

AUBURN — With the swine flu raging across Maine, two local elementary schools reported Wednesday that at least one-fifth of their students were out sick.

Hardest hit was Park Avenue Elementary School, where 23 percent were out sick Tuesday, Assistant Superintendent Katy Grondin said. Park Avenue hasn't offered students swine flu vaccines yet; a clinic is scheduled for Nov. 17.

At East Auburn Elementary, 20 percent of students were out Tuesday, Grondin said.

WAYNE — Richard Plante was an educator in every sense of the word. For most of his life, he taught kids from elementary age to junior high, earning the title of Teacher of the Year along the way.

Plante, who died Sunday at the age of 67, also educated through the written word as a longtime news correspondent for the Lewiston Sun Journal.

AUBURN — Auburn-based Safe Handling is being sold to a Utah company.

Founded about 20 years ago, Safe Handling transports and warehouses bulk products, handling a billion pounds of products every year and operating the largest rail-to-truck transloading facility in New England and western Pennsylvania, according to its Web site. It also makes products, mostly for the paper industry.

LEWISTON — A 10-year-old local girl collided with a car Wednesday morning and was taken to the hospital with an apparent leg injury, police said.

The girl, Stephanie Cornish, who lives in the area, was on a scooter that glided onto Knox Street from an adjacent driveway when the accident happened, police said.

The driver of the car, Megan Palmer, 24, of Rumford said she was "coming down the street and (the girl) came flying out of the driveway in front of my car."

Police said no citations were issued. 

LEWISTON — A man who jumped from a fifth-floor balcony Monday night to avoid arrest remained hospitalized Tuesday night.

Lt. Mark Watson of the Lewiston Police Department said John Esty Jr. of Lewiston was still a patient at Central Maine Medical Center. Additional information about Esty's injuries or condition was not available from Watson or the hospital.

AUBURN — Two people were ejected from the car they were riding in when it crashed early Sunday morning in Auburn.

The crash occurred at 1 a.m. Sunday on Hotel Road between Sandy Beach Lane and Crest Avenue. 

POLAND — Plans to extend water service along Route 26 and to seek funding through the Maine Community Development Block Grant program received solid support at Monday night's public hearing.

John Cleveland, Poland economic development consultant, ticked off a range of problems that people, living just miles from some of the world's best drinking water, experience. 

AUBURN — The final showing of the film "The Way We Get By" at Central Maine Community College will be from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12. The campus will be closed on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day. The incorrect date was submitted for a story that ran on Page B1 in Monday's City edition.

LEWISTON — John Esty Jr., 27, of Lewiston, jumped off a balcony at 295 Bates St. on Monday. He was misidentified in a story that ran on Page B2 in Tuesday's City edition.

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AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced Tuesday that six new commemorative decals are available to qualified veterans displaying veteran registration plates.

The new decals are the Army Combat Infantry Badge, the Army Combat Medic Badge, the Army Combat Action Badge, the Marine Corps Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy Combat Action Ribbon and the Air Force Combat Action Medal.

LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Republicans will host a dinner and business meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at Mays Hall on the Bates College campus. State Sen. Peter Mills of Cornville will be the keynote speaker for the evening. The gubernatorial candidate will address the group at 7:15 p.m. and host a question-and-answer session beginning at 7:30 p.m.

AUBURN — Ashlar Lodge No. 105, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, will host a Civil War Re-enactor Degree team Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Auburn Masonic Temple, 1021 Turner St. The Master Mason degree will be worked by a degree team made up of local Civil War re-enactors dressed in period clothing. All Master Masons are invited to attend. The degree will start at 3 p.m. with a supper following the degree work. For information call Steve Peterson at 777-1728.

LEWISTON — On Sunday, Dec. 6, Wreaths Across America will stop at Edward Little High School at 6:15 p.m. before heading to Virginia to place wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery. On Monday, Dec. 7, American Legion Post 22 will hold its annual Pearl Harbor Day ceremony at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church at Bates and Spruce streets.

What I have to say will shock you and I apologize for the jolt.

I was never a Boy Scout.

You heard me. As dead-on as "physically strong, mentally sound and morally straight" sounds as a description of me, I never took that particular oath. When I was a lad of impressionable age, I played hockey and baseball. I rode dirt bikes and chased girls. I pitched pennies against greasy brick walls and occasionally hung out at a billiards joint.

Charges

Lewiston

• Jacqueline Lemieux, 25, of 20 Wood St., two counts of theft, misuse of identification, operating under the influence and failure to give correct name and address, 11:23 a.m. Monday at 37 Park St.

• Christopher Lecompte, 25, of 86 North Saunders Road, Greene, on a warrant charging a probation violation, unlawful trafficking and unlawful furnishing, 9:56 p.m. Monday on Pine Street.

AUBURN — Three people remain hospitalized following Saturday's crash on Minot Avenue that claimed the lives of an Auburn mother and her 4-year-old daughter.

While family members mourn the loss of Lisa White, 36, and her daughter, Marissa White, 4, another daughter of White — 12-year-old Monica Wentworth — remains in Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. No information was available about her condition Tuesday night, according to a nursing supervisor.

LEWISTON — Something in his jumbled stack of death notices, marriage certificates and military discharges sparks Gordon Kimball's imagination. He imagines the heat of Gettysburg and the cold of Valley Forge.

And he thinks of the blood of those soldiers running through his veins.

"I get a big kick out of it," said Kimball, an 80-year-old retiree from Gray. "I want to share it."

Those words in inch-high bold black print shouted the news from the front page of the Lewiston Daily Sun on Monday morning, Nov. 11, 1918. The Great War, which would become known as World War I, was over and the Twin Cities were poised to erupt in jubilation.

A second headline under that report of armistice terms said, "Lewiston-Auburn Fittingly Celebrates Greatest Event in World History."

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Kenneth Bouchard, left, with Charles Bennett, center, and Jim Chaousis stand on Main Street in Jay on Monday holding American and Prisoner of War flags and waving to passing motorists. The dozen veterans who served from World War II through the Iraq war gather every Monday morning for about one hour starting in May to early November with their flags to honor America, veterans and those who are serving our country.

TURNER — Town leaders plan to continue their review Wednesday of Turner's biggest commercial development in decades, Hannford's proposed 36,000-square-foot supermarket on Route 4.

Such issues as traffic, wetlands, parking, lighting will be addressed by the Planning Board at a meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the town office on Route 117.

"We're there to respond to the range of items required by the town's ordinance," a spokesman for Hannaford said Monday.

A few months ago, Clark Metal Fabrication got the order it had been dreaming of. 

ExxonMobil was laying a pipeline in Canada and it needed several speciality parts — basically pipes wrapped with expensive wire — as part of the job. A representative from ExxonMobil said he had been working with a metal fabricator in Virginia, but that company wasn't doing its job. He needed those parts. He needed them right away. 

And he would pay a couple hundred thousand dollars if Clark Metal Fabrication could make them.