Breastfeeding support group AUBURN — Expectant women and breastfeeding mothers are invited to a La Leche League meeting to be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at 102 Bennett Ave. Babies are always welcome. Discussion will focus on “The Advantages of Breastfeeding for Mother and Baby.” All concerns about breastfeeding are welcome for discussion. […]
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Affordable Care Act info session set for Auburn
AUBURN — A public information session on the federal health care reform law will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the commons at Saint Dominic Academy at 121 Gracelawn Road. Individuals seeking information about the new federal health insurance exchanges, newly proposed insurance plans on the exchanges or other aspects for the […]
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L-A this week
MONDAY, Sept. 9 LEWISTON — School Committee, 6:45 p.m., Dingley Building, Oak Street, on agenda: report on enrollment, Lewiston Education Fund, input regarding distribution of fliers in schools. FRIDAY, Sept. 13 LEWISTON — Three-day Pathway Family Festival, games, rock climbing wall, giant inflatable rides, starts at 5 p.m. at Pathway Vineyard Church, outer Lisbon Street. […]
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People You Know: Brenda Fontaine — Making real estate work
LEWISTON — As a teen, Brenda Fontaine worked hard. She pumped gas, sold Avon, modeled clothes at her mother’s home shopping parties and sanded cars at her father’s body shop. She wanted to be a nurse out of high school in 1970, but the money wasn’t there for classes. Instead, Fontaine married her husband, Claude, […]
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Sick of bad news? Here’s a cure
Lewiston City Hall, a prominent fixture on our daytime skyline, will soon make an even more spectacular appearance at night. Electricians started installing 36 LED lights Thursday and Friday that will illuminate the main tower and its two mini-towers. Workers will return later this month to finish the job. City Hall will join two other […]
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Polish cadet trains with Auburn Fire Department
AUBURN — Firefighting techniques may be roughly the same in the U.S. as they are in Eastern Europe, but the approach to training firefighters is quite different. Pawe? G?tarczyk, 21, a third-year cadet in the country of Poland’s fire services academy, is learning that firsthand. “In school, we are very much more regimented,” G?tarczyk said. […]
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Charles Hilton — the man who tightrope-walked Great Falls
Charles Hilton was a 28-year-old shoe-shop worker, and a Civil War veteran shot twice in the legs, with a dream, guts and, most certainly, flair. Nearly 150 years ago, he walked a 1,200-foot tightrope over the Great Falls between Lewiston and Auburn — dangled upside-down by his toes, cooked on a wood stove and navigated […]
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Auburn to present ambulance service plan to public
AUBURN — Fire officials will give the public a glance at their plans for a city ambulance service Sept. 12. Fire Chief Frank Roma said the public session will be a broad discussion about the issue and the history of emergency response in the city. A detailed discussion will wait until a public hearing with […]
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Laurette Boulay
1920 – 2013 LEWISTON — Laurette Boulay, 92, formerly of Auburn, passed away Monday morning, Sept. 2, at d’Youville Pavilion, following a long illness. She was born in Lewiston on Sept. 6, 1920, a daughter of the late Ulric and Odiana (Bergeron) Grenier. She grew up in Canada and attended schools there. On Sept. 2, […]
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Auburn conversation series begins Sept. 17 at Edward Little High School
AUBURN — A series of seven meetings designed to boost community involvement in city affairs kicks off Sept. 17 at Edward Little High School. The meetings, facilitated by University of Southern Maine Community Planner and Auburn resident Mary Sylvester, will continue through Oct. 15. Sylvester is working on the conversations free of charge to the […]