AUBURN — An overnight flood Saturday has caused the YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston to shut down for at least the next week, Director Steve Wallace said Sunday. Twelve feet of water filled the Y’s basement after a leak that could have started any time after the building on Turner Street closed at 5 p.m. Saturday. “This […]
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Walking on orange alert in Auburn
Kathleen Henning, Pam Rousseau and Blue walk near the Maine Army National Guard Armory in Auburn on Thursday afternoon. “We are recent converts to the orange,” said Henning, who wears blaze orange on her own property since a hunting accident in Hebron took the life of a young woman earlier this season. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Auburn approves grades 7-12 monthly early release
AUBURN — With parents again objecting, the Auburn School Committee approved monthly early-release days for grades seven through 12. The change will start next year with the 2018-19 calendar. Students will be released two hours early, at noon, nine times next year. Last year, the proposal was for weekly early-release days for those grades. That […]
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Androscoggin commissioners adopt 2018 budget with no changes
AUBURN — The chairman of the Androscoggin County Budget Committee had urged the county commissioners to adopt its budget recommendations “in a gesture of goodwill.” In the end, the Androscoggin County Commission did just that Wednesday night, but not before much discussion and one member attempting to eliminate funding for one organization. With Isaiah Lary […]
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Police say Auburn man stole gun from Lewiston home
LEWISTON — An Auburn man who held police at bay in a downtown apartment Monday had stolen a pistol from a Laase Avenue home, officials said Tuesday. Police confirmed with the owner of the .380-caliber gun that it was missing after police recovered the firearm in the 287 Bates St. apartment in which Scott Andrew […]
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Lewiston-Auburn chamber takes over Top Gun LA as LAEGC weighs future
LEWISTON — While the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council decides what its future holds after both cities axed funding, it’s handing off two popular programs. Scott Benson, LAEGC’s economic and business development director, said Tuesday that the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce will take over Top Gun LA and the annual Maine B2B Trade Show. […]
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Auburn to recount mayoral votes Nov. 21
AUBURN — A recount of the results of Auburn’s mayoral race will take place Tuesday, Nov. 21, after the initial Election Day tally showed Jason Levesque beating Adam Lee by just six votes. Lee formally requested the recount last Thursday, stating that many of his supporters had urged him to make the request after such […]
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Auburn selects Christmas tree
Roger Begin of Cote Crane & Rigging lowers the Auburn Christmas tree onto a trailer at the home of Catrina Bonney on Alderwood Road in Auburn on Monday. Auburn Public Works arborist Noel Skelton cut the top half of a 60-foot fir before the tree received a police and fire department escort to Festival Plaza. […]
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Lewiston man held without bail in Auburn hammer attack
LEWISTON — A local man was ordered held without bail Monday after what police said was a hammer attack on an Auburn man. Jason Wotton, 31, of Lewiston appeared in 8th District Court on a charge of elevated aggravated assault, a Class A felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Judge Cynthia Montgomery […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Nov. 13 LEWISTON — School Committee, regular meeting, Dingley Building, 6:30 p.m. Agenda: discuss the differences between the high school and middle school athletic policies, and high school testing retake policy. LEWISTON — Finance Committee, 5:30 p.m. in the administrator’s conference room. LEWISTON — Planning Board, 5:30 p.m. in the council chamber. Agenda includes an […]