LEWISTON — The School Committee voted 6-3 Monday night to table discussions about an agreement to allow Maine Inside Out to continue its work to create original theater with Lewiston Middle and High school students. With committee members Elizabeth Eames, Tanya Whitlow and Chairman Megan Parks voting against tabling the issue, committee members were split […]
September 2023
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser, News
Livermore Falls board raises tax rate by $1.25
Selectmen used $400,000 from the town’s undesignated fund to offset a higher rate increase.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
New $45 million public safety building plan will go to Auburn voters
City councilors voted to send a $45 million bond to voters in November for a new building to house the city’s police and fire departments.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Lewiston man brought up on federal charge for 2022 racially motivated threat
Charles Allen Barnes, 47, of Lewiston faces up to five years in prison for an alleged racially motivated threat toward a neighbor in August 2022.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston man aims for the ax throwing world championship
Lucas Nichols is the top ax thrower in Maine and has a hand in Splittin’ Wood Axe Throwing, in the Lewiston Mall
Posted inSports
Former No. 1 tennis player Simona Halep gets 4-year ban in doping case
Two-time Grand Slam champion plans to appeal suspension, puts blame on contaminated nutritional supplements.
Posted inNews, Oxford Hills
Paris board agrees to purchase new tasers for Police Department
Axon is the only company that provides the weapon nationwide and is the sole distributer in Maine.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Schools & Education
RSU 16 board discusses future of Minot school and sixth-grade classes
POLAND — Minot elementary school students can be moved to other district schools without town approval if the school is not officially closed and remains district property, directors of Regional School Unit 16 said at Monday night’s meeting. The impact of losing a small-town school “is really an emotional thing for children and family,” parent […]
Posted inMaine, News
No criminal investigation into Arrowsic lighthouse walkway collapse that injured 11
The collapse of the walkway led to a chaotic scene in which visitors fell tumbling to a mudflat several feet below.