LISBON — The third-quarter honor roll students at Lisbon High School have been announced. High Honors Seniors: Noah Austin, Trenton Bundy, Valerie Doucette, Carly Drischler, Mallory Fairbanks, Ashley Greene, Cameron Goslin, Peyton Gosselin, Alyssa Judd and Alexander Wells. Juniors: Hailey Chapman, Lena Couture, Jenny Dong, Corbin Hall, Benjamin James, Jordyn Maloy, Siara Martin, Timber Mattson, […]
Androscoggin County
Great Lisbon Falls Fire of April 1901 focus of next society meeting
Lin Wright will speak about the details of the fire at the Lisbon Historical Society’s meeting on May 8.
Lisbon Street News is one the top three lottery sellers
In addition, the stores collectively paid out more than $2 million in prize money in 2018.
The sound of the Irish
On St. Patrick’s Day, a visit with daughter-and-dad musicians from Greene.
The rise and fall of George Stanley’s empire of stuff | Mark LaFlamme
You can call Stanley a lot of things — eccentric, strange, more trouble than a house full of monkeys — but stupid isn’t one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Blaze destroys old mill in Mechanic Falls
UPDATE: Mechanic Falls mill still burning; investigation into cause begins MECHANIC FALLS — A fire that destroyed a large mill building on Lewiston Street was still burning at 11 p.m. Sunday. According to a Facebook post by the Town of Mechanic Falls, crews expected to battle the blaze well into Monday morning. The fire was reported […]
George Stanley assesses the devastation after bogus Craigslist ad prompted a frenzy of looting
GREENE — At George Stanley’s place on Route 202, there are almost too many doors to count: garage doors, doors made of fencing and doors constructed of plywood and nails. On Thursday, working in the driving rain, the 71-year-old Stanley moved from one door to the next, assessing the damage and the losses. “This […]
Bogus Craigslist ad leads people to loot Greene property
“Free!” the Craigslist ad read. “Come one, come all, everything on the lot is free!” So enthusiastic was the advertisement it used the word “free” five times in the headline alone. The problem: The ad was bogus. The lot in question, a sprawling building surrounded by a mad jumble of free-floating items on Route […]
Is that a ghost caught on a game cam in a Durham front yard?
Tia Wilson said other creepy things happen around her old farmhouse. Doors opening, noises, footsteps, a shower curtain moving.
100 miles… on foot: Riverlands racers run through the night
TURNER – Melissa Ossanna of Bar Harbor trotted slowly but steadily toward the aid station at the Androscoggin Riverlands State Park lot about 5:30 Sunday morning. She was shivering slightly, huffing and puffing, but her smile was genuine, and contagious. Race volunteers greeted her with cheers, and the same questions: “What do you need? What […]