AUBURN — The Auburn School Committee Wednesday will hold a special workshop on early release to talk about feedback from the public. Last week, the committee was scheduled to vote about whether to extend early release from grades K-six to grades seven-12. After parents spoke strongly for 90 minutes opposing the change and asking officials […]
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L-A This Week
Lewiston School budget referendum is Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Longley Elementary School. MONDAY, May 8 LEWISTON — Lewiston Finance Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the administrator’s conference room at City Hall. LEWISTON — Lewiston Planning Board meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers at City Hall. LEWISTON — Lewiston School Committee, regular meeting, […]
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Merger a really bad idea
I am a resident of Lewiston, and I am opposed to the proposed merger of my city with Auburn. I cannot even imagine the prospects of my tax dollars being spent to bail out Auburn’s enormous tax problems. I keep reading about how the Joint Charter Commission received some $50,000 from Gov. Paul LePage’s administration […]
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Truck slams into club in Auburn
An Auburn police officer begins his investigation Friday night following a crash near the Firehouse Grille on Broad Street. The band Zeallous Bellus was on stage at about 10 p.m. when a pickup truck slammed into the side of a nearby hair salon, hitting an area not far from where Justin Dube was playing the […]
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Auburn-Lewiston Hall of Fame: Jacques-Grewal built love of biking in Auburn
Tammy Jacques, front, competes at a race in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. While riding her bike up and down the hilly streets of greater Auburn, making a career out of peddling was the last thing on the mind of young Tammy Jacques. But those treks were the basis for a professional cycling career that has earned […]
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CM Foundation honors achievements at annul dinner
AUBURN — A gathering of 225 attended the 10th annual Central Maine Community College dinner held recently at the Hilton Garden Inn. The event was hosted by the college’s Education Foundation board of directors. The highlight was the presentation of awards to students and others for their achievements or contributions to the college. Awards were […]
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County commissioners table personnel policy — again
AUBURN — What commissioners thought would be a quick review and ratification of the personnel policy for Androscoggin County on Wednesday turned into a 2½-hour workshop that ended by tabling the issue for the third consecutive meeting. Perhaps it wasn’t an albatross around their necks, but many commissioners clearly wanted the issue resolved by now. […]
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The Rev. Laurence T. Jordan
AUBURN — Funeral services honoring the life of the Rev. Laurence T. Jordan were held Tuesday, May 2, at the East Auburn Baptist Church with the Rev. Roger Cousineau presiding. Following a funeral procession to Highland Cemetery in Poland, the Rev. Cousineau recited graveside committal prayers followed by the U.S. Army Honor Detail playing taps […]
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Vivian Mancine celebrates 90th birthday
AUBURN — Vivian Mancine, resident of Auburn, celebrated her 90th birthday on April 29 at St. Philips Church. Mancine’s six children organized the event, which was attended by five generations and nearly 100 people, including relatives from New Hampshire and Connecticut, of all ages, the youngest of whom was Mancine’s great-grandson of 5 months. There […]
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Auburn: Early release deserves more scrutiny
A proposal by the Auburn School Department for early-release Wednesdays for middle- and high-schoolers sounds quite a lot like its proposal for late-start Wednesdays, pitched and quickly folded in 2012. Five years ago, Superintendent Katy Grondin said the department is “committed to raising student achievement by increasing teacher effectiveness in order for all students to […]