AUBURN — If you ask Park Avenue Elementary School teacher Jacquelyn Mitchell if she thinks iPad tablet computers are helping her students, she’ll give you a big smile. “They’re awesome,” Mitchell said. They help students gain skills, improve skills and help teachers provide individual, customized learning, she said. This is the third year Auburn is […]
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Watershed group moving quick on erosion projects
AUBURN — Watershed officials will work with city and state public crews over the next few weeks to head off potential erosion problems around Lake Auburn. The goal is to get the work wrapped up before winter, hoping to cure potential algae problems at the lake, according to Sid Hazelton, district engineer for the Auburn […]
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Auburn-Lewiston YMCA offers youth swim lessons
AUBURN — The Auburn-Lewiston YMCA announces registration for Session 2 of the 2013-14 Youth Swim Lesson Program for ages 6 months and up. The session will run from Oct. 28 to Dec. 21. The YMCA offers swim lesson classes for children 6 months to 12 years old: Parent & Baby (6 months to 2 years) […]
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Happy Hello-Ween in New Auburn AUBURN — New Auburn’s downtown businesses will hold the third annual Happy Hello-Ween event from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Parents may bring children to trick-or-treat safely at participating businesses. Pick up maps at Rolly’s Diner, 87 Mill St. Prizes will be given for best costume for children […]
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Auburn council gets first look at economic development contract
AUBURN — A formal contract with the Twin Cities’ economic development agency would put the city’s wishes in writing and make sure the city gets what it pays for, according to Mayor Jonathan LaBonte. “The goal was to create a strong document that outlines this,” LaBonte said. “The scope of work that is in place […]
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New Auburn Seniors relocate AUBURN — New Auburn Seniors said goodbye to St. Louis Church after 35 years. One hundred twenty members enjoyed a harvest dinner. The group is now looking forward to the move to Sacred Heart Church, 8 Sacred Heart Place. No bingo will be held for two weeks. Members expect to be […]
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Richard R. McKeone
1943 – 2013 MELBOURNE, Fla. — Richard R. McKeone, 70, of Melbourne, Fla., died Tuesday, Oct. 15. He was born in Auburn on May 24, 1943, to Ovila and Yvette Genesse McKeone. Richard was the co-owner of Ann’s Flower Shop and Provencher Garden Center in Auburn, where he lived until 1982. In 1982, he moved […]
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Report of Auburn students iPad use Wednesday
AUBURN — Reports on how iPads are being used in Auburn schools and how iPad tablet computers have impacted student learning will be given to the School Committee on Wednesday night. The committee will also hear how a more student-centered approach to teaching, called “mass customized learning,” is going in classrooms, Superintendent Katy Grondin said. […]
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91-year-old Auburn woman recalls youth in occupied Ukraine
AUBURN — When the Nazis arrived at Mary Dycio’s home in western Ukraine in 1941, she was jubilant. A girl of 19, she’d endured two years of occupation by the Soviets; the foul, sometimes barefoot soldiers and the plainclothes Communists who’d appear to snatch people away. “When they were coming to arrest you, they never […]