AUBURN — The Androscoggin County Republican Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 21, at Central Maine Community College’s Kirk Hall Auditorium. The college is on Turner Street in Auburn. Elections will be held for officers for the next two-year term.
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Police log
Charges Auburn * Nicolas Parent, 20, of 15 Mason St., warrant, 3:18 a.m. Wednesday on Fletcher Road. * Eric Vachon, 22, of 106 Greene St., Sabattus, warrants, 2:20 p.m. Wednesday on Washington Street. * Chelsea Landry, 28, of 57 Bradley St., Lewiston, operating after suspension and a warrant, 2:45 p.m. Friday on Mount Auburn Avenue. […]
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Drug crisis may require tough choices
Maine is in the midst of an opioid explosion and our region is being rocked the hardest. As the Sun Journal reported Sunday, oxycodone sales in Oxford and Androscoggin counties were up four-fold between 2000 and 2010, the highest rate of increase among 11 zones in Maine, with retail sales going from 11,085 grams in […]
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Sheriff backs Lewiston-Auburn 911 dispatch center
AUBURN — Androscoggin County Sheriff Guy Desjardins choked up Wednesday as he asked leaders to close the decades-old county dispatch center. And decide it quickly. “There are nine souls who work there,” Desjardins told the county commission. “They deserve to know what’s going to happen.” On Wednesday, commissioners had no answers as they listened to […]
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Silencers gaining popularity in Maine
TURNER — Chris Jordan rotated his safety switch to semi-automatic, aimed, and squeezed the trigger. In his hands, the German-made submachine gun twitched as it fired a 9-mm bullet at a speed of more than 1,000 feet per second. The round had sunk safely into the sand of a nearby gravel pit wall when its […]
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Walk MS in Androscoggin County locations Saturday
LEWISTON — The annual Walk MS will take place in several communities in Androscoggin County on Saturday, April 28. For information about a local walk, go to: www.nationalmssociety.org. The National MS Society assists more than 3,000 people living in Maine with this disease of the central nervous system. Through a new initiative called the NOW […]
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County turns again to L-A dispatching option
AUBURN — The Androscoggin County Commission is taking another peek at Lewiston-Auburn’s 911 system and a possible merger with county services. The three-member commission wants town and city managers to look at how a merged center might be governed. “We asked them if they thought there might be some governance model that might work and […]
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It’s now time to pull the plug on dispatch system
If you think Congress is gridlocked, consider the years spent trying to put local emergency dispatch services here under a single roof. If you haven’t been following this endless debate — and we couldn’t fault you if you have not — here are the basics: Androscoggin County has three dispatch services. County government runs one, […]
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Former AMVETS commander sentenced to jail on theft charge
AUBURN — Former Sons of AMVETS Commander Peter Ross Bragdon was sentenced to serve three years in state prison Monday, with all but 18 months suspended, after pleading guilty to felony theft from the veterans’ organization and to misuse of entrusted property. Bragdon, a former Androscoggin County emergency dispatcher, had been facing a maximum penalty […]
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Five candidates vying for county commission seats
LEWISTON — Five candidates have entered the race for a pair of seats on the Androscoggin County Commission. They include two incumbents, Randall Greenwood of Wales and Beth Bell of Auburn, a Mechanic Falls man who has never held political office in Maine, Lawrence McCarthy, and two men who work in the county jail and […]