LPD Citizens Police Academy LEWISTON — The Lewiston Police Department’s Citizens Police Academy provides an inside look over the day-to-day operations of the department. This is an opportunity to engage with the department and to be informed on the services they provide, to discuss current issues taking place within Lewiston and out, and to ask […]
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Anti-vaxxers spread a plague of ignorance
An outbreak of measles four years ago at Disneyland focused attention on a growing health menace — the refusal of parents to vaccinate their children. The threat has gone international. The World Health Organization has just named the anti-vaccination movement among the 10 biggest global health crises. Italy is ground zero, thanks to a law […]
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Lower-leg swelling may be due to venous insufficiency
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 84-year-old man in reasonably good health. I have taken blood pressure medicine for about 30 years. For the past six months, I have been taking trospium tablets to treat frequent urination. I have prostate cancer treated with radioactive seeds, not surgery. About two months ago, I began noticing swelling […]
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The Portland Players present 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Portland Players will present the haunting classic, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Jan. 25 to Feb. 10, at 420 Cottage Road. The sole straight play of the Portland Players 2018-19 season, Dale Wasserman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is based on the novel by Ken Kesey. When Randle P. McMurphy […]
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Concerts for a Cause to present Bold Riley
AUBURN — Concerts for a Cause will host Bold Riley at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the First Universalist Church of Auburn. The concerts raise money for local charities. The series is produced by a group of church members. Bold Riley offers joyful, acoustic folk music to audiences around Maine and beyond. The five-piece band […]
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A courageous welcome to strangers
“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost many years ago — a line of poetry that became accepted wisdom for many years. But now there is the situation down along the Mexican border, with the current administration set on constructing an ultimate border wall in hopes of promoting America’s general good neighborliness. That attempt […]
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Auburn to celebrate WinterFest 2019
AUBURN — Auburn’s Winter Festival will begin Friday and run all weekend. The schedule is: Friday — ‘Family Fun Night at the Mountain’ where Lost Valley is hosting activities. Torchlight Parade and fireworks at 9 p.m. Saturday — ‘Kids Activity Zone’ in downtown Auburn at Festival Plaza where activities includge a snow mountain, fire pits […]
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Ask some difficult questions
With the U.S. government shut down, people should be asking some difficult questions. Is having the border wall so important that the public stands by while President Trump refuses to negotiate with Congress? Saying “it’s the wall or nothing” is not negotiating in good faith. Are American citizens’ welfare simply a Trump business deal where […]
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Former St. Dom's student accepts position with NASA
LEWISTON — Jacob Charest of Lewiston, a member of the Saint Dominic Academy Class of 2016, has recently accepted an engineering co-op with NASA. Charest is a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, enrolled in the Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering master’s program. He’ll be working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, […]
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Dead River Historical Society 2019 calendars available
STRATTON — The Dead River Area Historical Society’s pictorial 2019 calendars are available. The cover features Stratton School grades three and four, 1949-50, with teacher Nyra Stevens. Other photos are January: 1947 basketball team; February: Kern’s Inn; March: Novelty Mill Stratton, circa 1907; April: Eustis Village postcard, 1903 or earlier; May: Stratton, Brook Bridge, accident scene […]