Here’s a request to move Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston to an area less likely to experience flooding. Perhaps the park across the street could be expanded to accommodate the various monuments, benches and souvenirs of service. If the community is going to fundraise $100,000 to restore what was damaged, it makes sense to me […]
2023
Posted inCommunity, Connections
Medical professionals launch 1,000 Lives Campaign for Maine
PORTLAND — The state’s medical professionals have launched the 1,000 Lives Campaign for Maine, aimed at reducing deaths from opioid drug overdoses by 1,000 during a five-year period beginning Jan. 1. Modeled on the Institute for HealthCare Improvement’s “100,000 Lives Campaign” to address preventable medical errors in hospitals, the campaign is a systematic, clinician-led, collaborative […]
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Bob Neal: The Countryman: What did not happen in 2023
Each party had ample opportunity in 2023 to smarten up. Neither did.
Posted inBoston Celtics, Sports
Jaylen Brown scores 31 points in Celtics’ 120-118 win over Raptors
Brown returns from a one-game absence to help Boston improve to 16-0 at home.
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times
Canton special town meeting postponed to Jan. 11
The meeting was postponed because the board was unable to meet to prepare the warrant for the meeting last week because of flooded roads from the Dec. 18 storm.
Posted inMaine Celtics, Maine Mariners, Sports
Sports Digest: Mariners’ new goalie shines in 4-0 win over Adirondack
Kyle Keyser, assigned to Maine a day earlier from the AHL, makes 44 saves for his first ECHL shutout.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Boys Hockey, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
High school roundup: Oxford Hills outlasts Mt. Ararat in overtime in boys basketball
One point decides the KVAC matchup. Also, Lewiston wins the St. Dom’s Hockey Christmas Classic tournament championship.
Posted inNation / World, Uncategorized
For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes add to the trauma
A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Replica of St. Mary’s Residences constructed with gingerbread
The former pastry chef spent just over a week measuring molds, baking and spreading icing to make a replica of the independent senior apartment building.