AUBURN — The UU Theater will stage “American Dreams: Immigration Stories” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the First Universalist Church, 169 Pleasant St. The free encore presentation is part of the “Becoming American” series and will feature a question and answer session after the show. Linda Britt wrote and directed the new play, […]
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Auburn water main break detours Center Street traffic
AUBURN — A water main break drenched a section of Center Street on Wednesday. Traffic was detoured as crews from the Auburn Water District dug down to fix the broken main. According to Sid Hazelton, superintendent of the Auburn Water District and the Auburn Sewerage District, reports came in around 4:30 a.m. of a water […]
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Buckfield man sentenced for Auburn home invasion
LEWISTON—A Buckfield man was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison on a robbery charge stemming from an April home invasion on Hampshire Street in Auburn. Raiden Joyner, 21, was one of three men charged with robbery, burglary and theft stemming from the home invasion. An Androscoggin County Superior Court judge sentenced […]
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Auburn police search for suspect in Big Apple robbery
AUBURN — Police have released images from surveillance video of a masked man suspected of robbing the Big Apple store Wednesday morning at 296 Main St. The suspect entered the store at about 6:20 a.m. and threatened the use of a weapon, but he did not display one, according to Auburn police. The man used […]
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Woman to give talk at Beekeepers Club meeting
The Androscoggin Beekeepers Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the vestry of the West Auburn Congregational Church, 811 West Auburn Road in Auburn. Kalyn Bickerman-Martens will present “The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas: A Multi-Year Citizen Science Project to Survey Bumble Bee Species in Maine.” She is a Ph.D. candidate in ecology […]
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Lewiston-Auburn lead program has cleared 500 units
LEWISTON — The city announced Monday that its lead abatement program has cleared 500 housing units of lead since 2009, and is on pace to meet targets set for its most recent federal grant. Lewiston has long been recognized as having one of the highest rates of childhood lead poisoning in the state, and has […]
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Webber, Pross and Hay to present at MSMA Conference
AUBURN — Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorneys Rebecca S. Webber, James F. Pross and Jordan Payne Hay will present at the 45th Annual Maine School Management Association Conference. It will be held Thursday and Friday at the Augusta Civic Center and feature speakers, product and service vendors, and more than 50 clinics on educational topics. […]
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Oxford man dies after log falls on him at Auburn sand pit
AUBURN — Police said an Oxford man died in a logging accident Monday afternoon at a sand pit on Gracelawn Road. Thomas Staples, 57, died when a log fell from a cherry picker and struck him, Deputy Police Chief Jason Moen said in a news release. Staples was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston […]
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Auburn Middle School votes in mock election
Camren Dufour, 12, works on his geography assignment after voting during the Maine Student Mock Election in his Auburn Middle School seventh-grade social studies class on Monday. Seventh- and eighth-grade students voted for Maine’s next governor, U.S. senator, U.S. congressman and on the Maine citizen initiative and four state bond questions. Social studies teacher Shane […]
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Judge signs protection order against DA candidate Seth Carey
LEWISTON — A judge issued an order against Seth Carey, a suspended attorney and Republican candidate for district attorney, barring him from having any contact with a woman who claimed to be his ex-girlfriend. The Auburn woman filed a protection from abuse order against Carey last week, accusing him of stalking her by parking in […]