LEWISTON — Get out the sunscreen and go enjoy the Great Falls. The National Weather Service in Gray said the Androscoggin River rose to 9 feet on Sunday — nearly double its height from Saturday, but safely out of flood stage — and will stay high while the area enjoys temps climbing into the 70s […]
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A ‘parade of palms’
High Street Congregational Church acolyte James Robinson, 10, of Lewiston holds the cross and watches parishioners of his church and St. Michael’s Episcopal Church wave their palm leaves at a “Parade of Palms” event on the Pleasant Street sidewalk in Auburn between the two churches during their Palm Sunday Masses. It was the first time the […]
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Big turnout at Auburn’s RV show
Kevin Charrette, left, heads over to look inside a camper as his wife, Heather, follows her children, Bentley, 6, right, and Paisley, 4, into another during Saturday’s Vacationland RV & Camping Show at Norway Savings Bank Arena in Auburn. Both rinks were jam-packed with people, campers, RVs, campgrounds and vendors. The show continues Sunday from […]
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YMCA takes over CMMC fitness center
LEWISTON — The YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston has officially taken over management of the Central Maine Medical Center Fitness and Wellness Center at the Lewiston hospital. CMMC announced the change in early February, the same time it announced it was laying off 28 people and dropping plans for a project at Bates Mill No. 5. A […]
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Lewiston Adult Education classes topics include income basics, essential oils
AUBURN — Auburn Adult and Community Education is taking registration for winter and spring courses. A sample the offerings in April and May include: Extra Income Basics: Begins Thursday, April 27. Participants will discuss the differences between supplemental and residual income and learn how they can earn money when they need it. Social Security and Health […]
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Edward Little biography to be presented at library
AUBURN — Douglas I. Hodgkin, historian and professor emeritus of political science at Bates College in Lewiston, will talk about his recently released biography of Edward Little at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in the Androscoggin Community Room at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. “Dear Parent: A Biography and Letters of Edward Little” details […]
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Pro-merger campaign for Lewiston-Auburn kicks off Thursday
AUBURN — A campaign group in support of the Lewiston-Auburn merger will host a kickoff event on Thursday. One LA, the group supporting the November vote to make Lewiston and Auburn one city, will roll out its essential argument in favor of the merger during a 10 a.m. news conference Thursday, April 6, at the […]
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Report: More than 70 percent of jail inmates have mental illness
AUBURN — The Androscoggin County Commission heard a presentation Wednesday from a Bates College student who did her senior thesis on mental illness at the county jail. Katie Stevenson, who worked in cooperation with the Androscoggin County Jail and Tri-County Mental Health Services, reported her findings and answered several questions from the commissioners for more […]
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Strainrite owners buy Maine’s oldest brewery, talk turnaround plans
AUBURN — Alan and Robin Lapoint aren’t wasting any time. Less than a month after the owners of The Strainrite Companies, headquartered here, bought D.L. Geary Brewing Co., effectively saving Maine’s first licensed brewery, they have two new 60-barrel fermenters arriving Thursday and two new beers hitting kegs in May. Their goal: to bring Geary’s […]
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James Holmes
AUBURN — James Bryan Holmes, 81, of Greene, formerly of Duxbury and Chelmsford, Mass., passed away Saturday, April 1, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s, at Hospice House of Androscoggin in Auburn. James was born June 29, 1935, to Golden and Dorothy P. (Donald) Holmes in Oswego, N.Y. He was a graduate of Buckfield High […]