Lewiston-Auburn
News and information from Lewiston and Auburn from the Sun Journal.
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Auburn council to discuss eminent domain process
While a specific property has not been identified, Mayor Jason Levesque said earlier this year that the city should take “derelict” properties by eminent domain, including The Barn at 67 Minot Ave.
Lewiston police say Friday’s traffic death was intentional
A man walked into traffic on Main Street in Lewiston on Friday — causing his own death, police said.
Photo: Lewiston council considering closing public access to high school playing fields
School and city officials are looking for ways to respond to the pet waste, trash, debris and wear caused by public access.
‘You have to be an artist’: Tyrone Jones shaping a new career as a barber
Working: Urban barber reaches out to help veterans with mobility issues.
It’s too late: Lewiston to hold hearing on homeless shelter but there’s no funding to back it
Lewiston will miss out on $3.7 million in state funding for a temporary shelter due to a city licensing process that took longer than expected.
Lewiston man hospitalized after Friday hit-and-run
Police investigators were busy Friday after a toddler fell from a fourth-story window and a Lewiston man was injured when struck by a vehicle that fled the scene Friday.
A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In ‘heart-rending scenes,’ white slavers ‘would sell their own children,’ William Davis recalled.