AUBURN — The popular Lotus Restaurant on Center Street opted to voluntarily shut down for several days to undergo a deep cleaning and have a new pest service come in, after city and state health officials met there Thursday morning. The restaurant had five cockroach complaints since November, two of those in the past week, […]
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Carolyn R. Pratt
AUBURN — Carolyn Ruth Pratt, 71, of Sabattus passed away Sunday, June 18, at Clover Manor with her family at her side. She was born in Lewiston in 1945, the eldest daughter of LaForrest and Joyce Small. She was raised in Sabattus and Brunswick and attended local schools. She married Benjamin Pratt on Dec. 1, […]
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Androscoggin County jail receives perfect marks in state inspection
AUBURN — Androscoggin County jail Administrator Capt. Jeffrey Chute is already looking ahead to his facility’s 2019 state inspection and exceeding his jail’s current high standards. That’s a lofty goal. The Androscoggin County jail’s latest grade? A perfect 100 percent. A team of three inspectors from the Maine Department of Corrections spent a couple of […]
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Fire devours home on Youngs Corner Road in Auburn
AUBURN — Fire devoured a house on Youngs Corner Road on Wednesday, forcing an 89-year-old woman to flee her childhood home. Witnesses said Marilyn Reilly escaped with her dog just before the sprawling two-story house was engulfed in flames. “We saw her in the road, running after her dog,” said Maxine Warner, a New Hampshire […]
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Lewiston-Auburn merger campaigns begin public debate
AUBURN — The first public forum between the competing campaigns on a proposed merger of Lewiston and Auburn was an hour-and-a-half-long push and pull between a bold vision to unite two cities and a plea to sustain their separate legacies. One argued that consolidating the cities will allow a singular economic vision in response to […]
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American Legion baseball: Rogers Post rallies past Locke Mills
AUBURN — After going the first three innings without a hit, Rogers Post changed its fortunes in the fourth inning. A no-hitter for Jackson Silver Post of Locke Mills pitcher Caleb Clarke came to a screeching halt, as did the Locke Mills club’s undefeated start in a 6-3 loss to Rogers Post of Auburn in […]
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Auburn council opposes amending goats ordinance
AUBURN — City councilors on Monday were not in favor of amending Auburn’s zoning rules regarding farm animals, despite a recent city mistake that could lead to a family on Merrow Road losing its two pet goats. The Tripp family has attended a number of City Council meetings since April, when after receiving initial permission […]
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Auburn council passes $41.7M budget
AUBURN — The City Council voted 5-2 Monday to approve a $41.7 million budget, but not without rekindling a debate over Fire Department overtime expenses and additional EMS staff. The vote came two weeks after debate over the fire and EMS budgets led to a 2-3 vote in first reading. Along with the 2017-18 school […]
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American Legion baseball: Rogers Post puts away Gardiner
GARDINER — Damien St. Pierre the batter helped out Damien St. Pierre the pitcher Monday night in Rogers Post’s 6-4 American Legion baseball victory over Gardiner. St. Pierre had two hits, including a double, while also pitching a complete-game six-hitter. Jake Arel also had a double as part of a two-hit game, and Austin Cox […]