Carlton Plourde, Lisbon, customer 20+ years:“I’ve gone other places for comparison, but always got more for my trade-in at Emerson. I always deal with Henry Morin, sometimes Ray Roux, and they treat me pretty well. I just bought a new 2004 Chevorlet Monte Carlo SS last week!”Maria McDonald, Hebron, customer for five years:“My first experience […]

For the Emerson Auto Park, timing was everything. Four years ago Sherry Lavoie, Emerson Body Shop Manager, recalls discussing the need for an expanded body shop.“It was all a matter of timing,” says Lavoie, “and the time was now.” With an increase of business and the Toyota dealership moving in next door, Lavoie says it […]

Jim Emerson smiles when asked about the daunting task of moving his Toyota dealership from its current location at 279 Center Street to its new home, the north end of the Emerson Auto Park, at 990 Center Street in Auburn.“I purchased the dealership in May 1996. Since then, we’ve quadrupled sales,” explains Emerson. “We have […]

On November 5, the Emerson Cheverolet/Buick/Pontiac car dealership located on Center Street in Auburn celebrated its 40th year anniversary in conjunction with the addition of Emerson Toyota to the Emerson Auto Park address. For the Emerson brothers, who used to wash cars on their father’s car lot to earn spending money, auto dealership is a […]

4 Leslie Emerson and Jim Ringer purchase first car dealership in Somersworth, NH4 November 1963: Leslie Emerson moves family to Lewiston, Maine and buys Puritan Chevy dealership on Main Street; they remain at this location until 19814 March 1981: Leslie Emerson purchases Marcotte Cheverolet on Center Street4 In 1986: Purchase Flock Buick/Pontiac4 January 1991: Flock […]

Picture being 10 years old and reading books on the Salem Witchcraft Trials, watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch and wanting a black cat- That’s how I acted when I was in fifth grade. I would borrow books from the library on the Salem Witch Trials, watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch every Friday night on TGIF […]

St. Peter & Sacred Heart SchoolHow do you feel about Grady Little’s decision to keep Pedro Martinez in the 8th inning of the last championship game against the Yankees?We asked various people at Saint Peter and Sacred Heart School this question and there were some very different opinions on the topic. The sixth grade teacher, […]

All right, maybe its not real Shakespeare, but it’s about Shakespeare. If you think that this play is biographical, though, you would be sadly mistaken. This term, Oak Hill High School’s Theatre in the Woods is performing The Haunting of Will Shakespeare, a comedy by Claudia Haas about how young Will Shakespeare decided to become […]

The complexity of the English language is being deleted. The art of conversation is lost behind a smokescreen of abbreviations the Internet language. Phrases like just kidding, which were once seen as cute phrases that could woo a crowd are now replaced with JK. JK sits flat on the tongue; it is a stale word […]

At Poland Spring Academy, students, and teachers got together and raised money for backpacks and school supplies to take to Department of Human Services. They did this so that children who are in the care of Department of Human Services could have something for themselves. Every year around this time students and teachers gather these […]