AUBURN — Nine women, two oven mitts and one present. The Episcopal Church Women of St. Michael’s met for their annual Christmas party and cookie swap Tuesday night at the church on Pleasant Street. The first order of the evening: One game of “Open the Present.” Ellie Wheeler provided and wrapped the present in question, […]
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Inauguration: In with the new in Auburn
Outgoing Auburn Mayor Jonathan LaBonte, right, presents his successor, Jason Levesque, with an oversized gavel prior to Levesque being sworn into office during Monday night’s inauguration ceremony at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) AUBURN — Auburn’s new mayor, Jason Levesque, has immediate plans for his tenure. The first, which he outlined […]
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'The Damned One' debut
LEWISTON — Sean Wallace walked into the audition at Praxis Production Studios last December to read for the part of a British businessman, turned on a southern accent when he was done, and walked out playing the bad man who wears black in “The Damned One.” The supernatural Western set in the 1800s, shot entirely […]
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Twin City Thunder to skate in USPHL at Norway Savings Bank Arena
We are excited to announce we will be expanding into #Maine for our Premier North Division! The @TwinCityThunder team will join us for the ’18-’19 season! Check out the full release here – https://t.co/teHVrkn8Ie #usphl #hockey pic.twitter.com/FAIiBF4tnH — USPHL (@USPHL) December 1, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js AUBURN — Maine’s newest junior hockey team will call itself the […]
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YMCA postpones Hall of Fame event
AUBURN — The YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston has postponed its annual Hall of Fame celebration, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 6. The new date has not yet been set, but it will be in the new year. The decision to postpone is based on the impact of flooding over the weekend of Nov. 18-19,when […]
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Affordable housing units break ground in Auburn
Sharon Philbrook Bergeron, right, president of the Auburn Housing Development Corp., talks with Joan Lynch and her son, Kevin Lynch, during the groundbreaking for 62 Spring St., a multi-unit housing development in Auburn, on Thursday. Joan and Kevin Lynch sold the property where their Dillingham & Son Funeral Home once stood to get the subsidized […]
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Junior hockey team to call Auburn home
AUBURN — The Lewiston-Auburn area is getting a second junior hockey team. Monday night, the Auburn City Council gave its unanimous approval to Maine Hockey Management Group LLC to finalize a lease agreement with a yet-to-be-named league to operate a team out of the Norway Savings Bank Arena beginning next season, in August 2018. “We’re […]
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Kristi's Cafe in Auburn
New cafe offers ‘completely-from-scratch’ breakfast and lunch Real estate, social work, therapeutic recreation and installing grass turf around the Northeast are all jobs Kristi Huard Norcross has had. In other words, no background in running a cafe. “I have no restaurant experience, except for waitressing when I was younger,” said Norcross. But clearly Norcross is […]
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Thousands line up for Black Friday in Auburn
AUBURN — Temps were low, lines were long and Carolee Taylor was in it to win it. First in line at Walmart for the 11th year in a row and there since 11 a.m., the Lisbon woman was armed with shopping lists for herself, her brother and her mother, an elderly man she cleans house […]
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Father, son arrested in Illinois, Florida in Auburn armed robbery case
AUBURN — Police say two arrests have been made in last month’s burglary and robbery on Park Avenue. John Michaud, 49, of Lewiston, was arrested Tuesday in Illinois, while his son, John Michaud Jr., 19, of Lewiston, was arrested earlier this month in Florida. The woman who lived in the Park Avenue home was tied up […]