For five years, Emmie Jones has volunteered with a group based out of Lewiston High School that helps homeless and at-risk students. She’s seen that challenge up close. A young girl who started out as Jones’ babysitter found herself homeless at 14 and lived with Jones’ family for several years. “Now she just graduated from […]
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Hottest trend in web design? Ugly, unusable sites
Think Craigslist … There’s an interesting trend in web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad. Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites – some decades old, some built recently – and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly interfaces that […]
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40 Under 40: Recognizing local talent in L-A
They’re teachers, CEOs, photographers, ski coaches, nonprofit leaders. More than 180 people were nominated and 2,482 votes cast in the Young Professionals of the Lewiston Auburn Area’s — now Uplift LA’s — first class of 40 Under 40 honorees, each up-and-coming professionals in their fields. Last Friday night, they were officially honored at a Kora Temple […]
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40 Under 40: Jennifer Hogan, credit union CEO giving back
When Auburn businessman Dick Gleason hired Jennifer Hogan for a sales position at his radio station more than 10 years ago, her first job in the area, he told her to get out there. “If you’re going to work for me, you’re going to be involved in the community. It can be whatever you want […]
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40 Under 40: Sara Goodrich, getting involved and growing a business
Delaware native Sara Goodrich moved to Lewiston with her husband in 2011 and didn’t waste any time. She opened a massage and yoga studio that fall on Main Street. A few months later, the couple helped found Grow L+A. “Especially if you’re new to a community, or if you’re not as connected as you want […]
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40 Under 40: Karly Eretzian, getting creative in L-A
Karly Eretzian loved math and art growing up in Turner. She left for college in New York to study advertising design and knew she wanted to come back to Maine. “I thought I’d have to go to Portland,” she said. “I didn’t know too many agencies in Lewiston-Auburn who were looking for designers.” Then talent […]
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40 Under 40: Derrick Lacasse, singing, acting, teaching
For the last two years, Derrick Lacasse has been the grade K-8 music, band and chorus teacher at Saint Dominic Academy. The busy 23-year-old is also assistant tennis coach and drama co-advisor in addition to teaching voice lessons at Community Little Theatre’s summer theater camp. “The ‘aha!’ moment, I love seeing that,” said Lacasse, who […]
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Mystery photo for May 15, 2016
Mystery photo for May 15, 2016 There were 226 correct mystery photo entries for last week’s photo of the iconic sign in front of the Village Inn Restaurant on High Street in Auburn. In a random drawing of the correct entries, the winner, Frances Page of Leeds, revealed that she just had her 74th birthday […]
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Lessons from ‘The Goonies’ and unsupervised time for kids
I was watching “The Goonies” with my 8-year-old son recently. It was an old VHS copy that my wife found at a yard sale, and luckily we still had a VCR, the same one I’d gotten from my mother when I was 8. Tristan’s blue eyes were glossy, his body was limp; everything about him […]
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Eats: The Dolphin’s reputation casts a wide net
By land, by sea and even by air, locals and those from away go the distance to the end of Basin Point in South Harpswell to savor the experience that is The Dolphin Marina & Restaurant. This summer marks my 30th year of driving down the now-familiar winding road for my fix of famous fish […]