RUMFORD — Rumford Elementary School, one of the two elementary schools in Regional School Unit 10, is third on the Maine Department of Education’s 2018 priority list for school construction, Superintendent Deb Alden said Tuesday. “We will be getting a committee together to plan for this and looking into a pre-kindergarten through grade eight facility […]
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Training program prepares candidates for construction hires
LEWISTON — A group of students graduated from the WorkReady/Construction training program on May 14. The event was hosted at Community Concepts and is offered through the collaboration of Lewiston Adult Education, Western Maine Community Action (WMCA), Lewiston CareerCenter, John T. Gorman Foundation, Community Concepts, City of Lewiston and Take 2. Area contractors joined the […]
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Douglas P. Gibbert
AUBURN — Douglas P. Gibbert, 65, of Leeds passed away peacefully at the hospice house in Auburn. He was born Aug. 27, 1952, in Lewiston. He was the son of Henry and Ruth Gibbert. He graduated from Leavitt High school in 1970. He worked in construction industry as a iron worker most of his working years, […]
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Derek P. Parker
LEWISTON — Derek P. Parker, 35, of 299 Oak Hill Road, Litchfield, died Sunday, May 20, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. Born in Dover, N.H., on May 15, 1983, he was the son of Richard and Linda Roux Parker. Educated in New Hampshire schools, he was […]
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Video: New playing fields near Lewiston High School taking shape
Employees of Northeast Turf lay down artificial turf on the new football field at Lewiston High School on Tuesday. The multipurpose field is one of three new playing fields and one track that school staff hope will be ready at the start of the 2018 school year. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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Road construction begins on Old Jay Hill Road
A crew from C.H. Stevenson Inc. of Wayne installs a drain pipe Wednesday along Old Jay Hill Road in Jay. A section of the road is being rebuilt to handle heavy equipment and trucks hauling heavy loads for Polycor, a granite curbing manufacturer. No through traffic is allowed on the road during the construction project. Stevenson […]
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Leopold "Paul" Soucy
NORTH MONMOUTH — Leopold “Paul” Rudolph Joseph Soucy, a resident of Monmouth, earned his wings on Friday, April 27, after a four-year battle with stage IV colon cancer. He was born to Alexander and Jeannine (Cloutier) Soucy on Jan. 26, 1966, in Lewiston, and was educated in Lewiston schools. Paul worked for many years for Steel […]
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Frederick H. Haynes
GRAY — Frederick H. “Ricky” Haynes, 66, died unexpectedly Sunday, April 22, at his home on Lake Avenue. He was born in Bangor on Nov. 6, 1951, the son of William W. and Diane (Burnham) Haynes. He received his K-8 elementary education at Waterford Memorial School and graduated from Oxford Hills High School in 1970. He […]
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Road repair season gets underway
Donald Harrington, a flagger from Complete Labor & Staffing, looks for cars to stop on Summer Street in Lewiston as Troy Ouellette from Morin Excavation applies mortar to a manhole Tuesday afternoon. In the past year, Ouellette has built up more than 500 manholes in local streets scheduled to be paved, or in this case, […]
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Traffic delays on Bartlett Hill in Lewiston
Motorists on Tuesday afternoon were dealing with traffic delays on Bartlett Hill in Lewiston and will have to endure it a while longer as a Maine Department of Transportation project to upgrade catch basins, add trees and work on several other maintenance issues continues. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal