PORTLAND — Some of the top young talent in the Boston Red Sox farm system has called Hadlock Field home this year. A handful of Red Sox have passed through on injury rehabilitation assignments on their way back to Boston. But some of the biggest cheers at Portland Sea Dogs’ games this season have erupted […]
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Auburn searches for way to preserve St. Louis Church
AUBURN — The city is searching for a way to rescue St. Louis Church. City officials have talked with Roman Catholic leaders, toured the grand-but-shuttered church and talked to at least one private developer about investing in the 98-year-old New Auburn landmark. “You just can’t build buildings like that anymore,” Alan Manoian, an economic development […]
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Gerard R. Lajoie Jr.
1942 – 2013 AUBURN — Gerard R. Lajoie Jr., 71, died Saturday, with his family by his bedside, at Clover Manor, where he resided for the past 12 years. Born in Lewiston March 22, 1942, a son of the late Gerard and Juliette Tardif Lajoie, he was graduated from Holy Cross School, Lewiston High School, […]
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Police log
CHARGES LEWISTON * Crystal Lynn Rousseau, 26, of 869 Sabattus St., probation hold, 10 p.m. Friday, Sabattus Street. * Ali Hussain Almurshidy, 45, of 2 Granite St., Lewiston, assault, Saturday, 300 Main St. * Amanda Mae Benoit, 25, 55 Tall Pines, disorderly conduct and fighting, assault, 12:40 a.m. Saturday, Acme Social Club, 255 Park St. […]
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Council gives developer two-year option for old police station
AUBURN — Councilors gave developer Joe Casalinova two more years to come up with a development plan for the city’s old police station at 1 Minot Ave. “By the time you take it from concept through permitting through planning, our goal is to not have to take 24 months,” Casalinova said Monday. “But it does […]
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One Minot Avenue developer gets more time from city
AUBURN — Councilors will give Joe Casalinova of Building Solutions Inc. more time to plot his proposed renovations to the city’s old police station at One Minot Avenue. Councilors voted this past spring to give Casalinova until Friday to come up with a plan for the building, but he said Monday he’s close to working […]
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Ghosts are running wild among the books at the Auburn library, says local ghost hunter
AUBURN — If Howard Labbe’s observations are correct, our community is crawling with ghosts. They teem in vacant houses. They run rampant in downtown apartments and pretty much rule attics everywhere. Ghosts are all over the place, according to Labbe’s research, and the Auburn Public Library is no exception. The operator of Restless Spirits Investigations […]