LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center’s Wellness Center is offering the following group exercise programs beginning April 13. Advanced bellydancing: This class is for those who have at least a year’s experience in bellydancing and want to take it to the next level. Instructor Lisa Cummings, a.k.a. Imari, will introduce class participants to bellydancing choreography. […]
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Lewiston’s Baxter Brewery to release first seasonal ale
LEWISTON — Baxter Brewing Company has announced that it will release its first seasonal beer, Celsius Summer Ale, next week. The Baxter’s head brewer Ben Low described Celsius Summer Ale in a press release as having a “solid base of citrusy American hops which give a crisp bitterness, without overpowering the summery touches that make this beer […]
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Well done – Carrie McFerren
BOSTON – Lewiston native Carrie McFerren has been admitted to the North Bennet Street School, where she has begun a two-year training program in jewelry making and repair. McFerren is a 1996 graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn. She lives in Whitman, Mass.
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Kora Shrine holding 59th annual Shrine Circus
LEWISTON — Kora Shrine’s 59th annual Shrine Circus will hold shows at 4 and 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, and at 9:30 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at the The Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Shows will also take place at the Cumberland County Civic Center at 2 and 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, […]
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Firefighters being cautious about hazardous buildings
LEWISTON — Firefighters will be more cautious about responding to fire and emergency calls at 54 abandoned houses and apartments around the downtown, waiting to go inside until fires are mostly extinguished. The buildings are all on the list of vacant and abandoned residential structures the city is hoping to demolish over the next year, […]
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La Leche group to meet AUBURN — The La Leche League offers breastfeeding information and encouragement to pregnant women, new mothers and growing families. Services offered include monthly meetings and 24-hour telephone help. All interested women are invited to attend the next meeting to be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 11, at 102 Bennett […]
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‘DON Disaster’ film to air on 100th anniversary of Titanic
LEWISTON — “GONE: The Mystery of the DON Disaster,” the true story of 34 people who died in one of New England’s worst boating accidents, will air Thursday and Saturday, April 12 and 14, on MPBN. All aboard were lost, and unlike the great ship of 1912, the fate of the DON remains a mystery. […]
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Tax Day rally will be held Sunday in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A Tax Day rally sponsored by Maine Taxpayers United will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Franco-Heritage Center. The rally is being held on the traditional day that is the deadline for federal income tax returns, and has become an occasion to remind all that Maine taxpayers carry among the heaviest […]
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Sheila Laurendeau
AUBURN — Sheila Laurendeau, 83, of Lewiston, died April 9, at the Hospice House of Adroscoggin Home Care and Hospice with her family by her side. Sheila was born in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1928, the oldest of three girls and daughter of Sara (Sally) and John McCabe. She grew up in Rumford, R.I., then […]
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Rosaire J. ‘Rosie’ Dumond
LEWISTON — Rosaire J. “Rosie” Dumond, 88, of Spring Street, Lewiston, passed away at home on April 7, after a long courageous battle with cancer, with his loving family by his side. He was born in Madawaska, May 20, 1923, the son of Firmin and Marie (Caron) Dumond. He was educated in the Madawaska area […]