LEWISTON — Taysir Jama, health promotion coordinator at Healthy Androscoggin, will be the featured guest speaker at the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 6, at the Ramada Inn, Lewiston. Jama is a health promotion coordinator at Healthy Androscoggin, responsible for building awareness about lead poisoning and educating our community about lead […]
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Auburn library holds Fun with Physics
Jamin Collins, 11, left, and Larson Stone, 8, work on making a marshmallow catapult at the Auburn Public Library on Tuesday. They were taking part in a Fun with Physics program with staff from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service who were teaching children about force, motion, inertia and energy. For more information on […]
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Helping the animals
Caleb Libby of Auburn presented the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society with donations given to him at his 8th birthday. The second-grader at Sherwood Heights Elementary School, shown with Smudges, donated pet food, treats, pellets and cleaning supplies. The society is at 55 Strawberry Ave. in Lewiston. FMI: 207-783-2311, savingpetsinmaine.org, facebook/GAHumane.
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Auburn library holds Fun with Physics
Jamin Collins, 11, left, and Larson Stone, 8, work on making a marshmallow catapult at the Auburn Public Library on Tuesday. They were taking part in a Fun with Physics program with staff from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service who were teaching children about force, motion, inertia and energy. For more information on […]
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Eric Brakey's birth control bill would ease prescription requirement
State Sen. Eric Brakey is sponsoring a bill that would allow women to buy birth control pills and patches over the counter with an expired prescription. Brakey sees it as a free-market approach: women could skip the current time and expense of an annual visit to the doctor for a new prescription and buy it […]
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In rebuttal: Savings based on fact, not fantasy
This is in response to James Howaniec’s guest column (Feb. 26). Howaniec opposes the proposed merger of Lewiston and Auburn. He refers to the merger as if it were the brainchild of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. In fact, the idea was endorsed by hundreds of citizens who signed petitions asking that the […]
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Hay wagon catches fire, closes Route 136 in Auburn
Auburn firefighters Kevin Rickett and Matt Fifield monitor a hay fire that closed down Route 136 near the Jordan School Road in Auburn on Friday afternoon. A trailer full of hay that was being pulled by a pickup truck caught fire. Central Maine Power was called as a precaution after flames reached 15-20 feet high. Power did not have […]
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Whiting Farm Children's Garden Program to begin
AUBURN — Whiting Farm Children’s Garden Program is designed to encourage children to find the fun in gardening while learning the importance of growing their own food. The program begins during April school vacation and continues through the growing and harvesting season, ending in October. During their time on the farm, children will participate […]
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Auburn Rec organizing 7-day cruise to Bermuda
AUBURN — The Auburn Recreation Department is sponsoring a seven-day cruise to Bermuda, to depart Friday, May 5, from the Auburn Recreation Department in Pettengill Park, Auburn. Participants will leave by bus at 9 a.m. and head to Boston, arriving at about 11:30 a.m. They will then board the Norwegian Dawn, moored in Boston Harbor, for a check-in […]
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CMCC women's basketball team gets its day to celebrate national title
Hayley Peterson, of Bethel, center, holds the National Championship trophy she and her teammates from Central Maine Community College basketball team recently won. She and teammates Holly Decourcey, left, Ellie Harrington, right, and the rest of the players and coaches, were honored for winning the championship during a ceremony at the CMCC gym Thursday afternoon. […]