It would include hundreds of homes, offices and retail businesses on the city’s western edge.
July 2020
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Grand juries return to courthouses across Maine
The coronavirus put on hiatus the confidential arm of the judicial system that hands up indictments, stalling hundreds of cases across the state.
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Posted inMaine
Skeleton display keeping spirits up in Yarmouth during pandemic
Mary Post changes up a display of two skeletons participating in different activities weekly in her yard on East Main Street.
Posted inBicentennial, Maine
On this date in Maine history: July 27
July 27, 2011: Transportation officials from Maine and New Hampshire agree to close the Memorial Bridge across the Piscataqua River permanently – about a year ahead of what was expected. The announcement essentially puts U.S. Route 1 businesses on either side of the 88-year-old bridge, in Kittery and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on dead end roads […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
As buildings reopen amid virus fears, occupants seek to clear the air
Businesses and schools are scrambling to upgrade their heating and cooling systems to reduce COVID-19 outbreaks.
Posted inThings to Do
Find bliss at a Maine swimming hole
Go a little off the beaten path to take a dip in one of Maine’s lesser-known swimming spots in area rivers, streams and lakes.
Posted inMaine
Whose idea was it to call Maine ‘Vacationland’?
Like it or not, the slogan has adorned Maine’s license plates for nearly 85 years.
Posted inMaine
CMP corridor opponents still in the dark about police surveillance
Opponents of the New England Clean Energy Connect project say they are frustrated at delays in obtaining information collected about them by a secretive Maine State Police intelligence unit.
Posted inFranklin, Maine Crime, News
Ex-deputies linked to pot business that was target of federal drug raid
One former Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy is treasurer and another a board member of a wholesale medical marijuana company hit in the sweeping raid last week in Farmington.
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on July 27
100 Years Ago: 1920 As exclusively told in the Lewiston Journal several days ago, the United Last Company of Auburn, successor to the Fitz Brothers’ Last Company, has purchased a tract of thirteen acres in the Strawberry Avenue district It would be an ideal place for a factory, altho no plans are announced. The deed […]