Live music, food trucks and practically perfect weather prefaced the fireworks show this year at the 21st Annual Liberty Festival in Lewiston and Auburn on Tuesday. Hundreds of people made their way to the James B. Longley Bridge to catch the fireworks show. Some people set up their spots early in the afternoon, and plenty […]
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Where to see the fireworks
Where to watch fireworks displays in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties this weekend through the Fourth of July. July 4 • Auburn-Lewiston: West Pitch Park in Auburn, Great Falls on the Androscoggin River, 9:30 p.m. Rain date July 5 • Augusta: Drum Barker Road, Staler Tissue Mill Site, 9 p.m. Rain date July 5. • […]
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Fireworks planned at Bates College for Saturday
LEWISTON — A student group at Bates College will present fireworks over the college’s Lake Andrews starting around 9 p.m. Saturday, May 20. The event was postponed from earlier this month. An organization promoting Asian and Asian-American awareness, identity and fellowship at Bates, Sangai Asia sponsors a fireworks show near the end of every academic […]
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Fireworks over Bates College planned Saturday
LEWISTON — A student group at Bates College will present fireworks over the college’s Lake Andrews starting at about 9 p.m. Saturday, May 6. Sangai Asia, an organization promoting Asian and Asian-American awareness, identity and fellowship at Bates, sponsors a fireworks show near the end of every academic year. A performance of taiko drumming will […]
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Fireworks not worth the pollution
I live in Farmington, but grew up in Wilton near the Wilson Lake. I have a friend who lives in Wilton now who told me she was walking there recently and was surprised at the amount of fireworks residue around the lake, not to mention what fell into the lake itself. I have a schoolmate […]
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Have respect for neighbors
Whatever happened to celebrating the Fourth of July — Independence Day — on the Fourth of July? Imagine giving your children Christmas presents every morning during December, or giving your love a Valentine gift every day during February or handing out candy to costumed children every night during October. Yet, I have been listening to […]
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Peace and quiet destroyed
William Weimer of Phantom Fireworks made a valid plea: Be mindful using consumer fireworks in the vicinity of veterans (letter, June 29). But was the purpose of that letter heartfelt concern, or is it really just public relations, trying to portray manufacturers in a positive light in view of the negative impacts fireworks have had […]
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Father says Devon Staples thought firework that killed him was a dud
CALAIS — The father of the man who died in a fireworks accident here on July 4 said the circumstances of the death have been misrepresented. Reached Monday morning, Russ Staples said his son Devon Staples had been holding the fireworks mortar tube on his head as a joke, thinking that it was a dud […]
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L-A Fourth a fiery celebration at fairgrounds
Here’s a quick little trivia quiz. In what year was the first joint Lewiston-Auburn Fourth of July celebration held? It was 1948, and it was a big event with an intercity all-star baseball game in the morning at Walton Field in Auburn, and a fireworks display at the Maine State Fairgrounds in Lewiston. The display […]
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Carrabassett Valley July 4 celebration
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The town’s Fourth of July celebration begins at 3 p.m. Saturday with a children’s parade from the Tufulio’s parking lot to the town park. The grand marshal is The Great Stefan. The Independence Day celebration will continue at the park with a children’s sawdust pile and craft projects from 3:30 to 4:15 […]