LEWISTON — Lewiston’s popular master of Halloween, the generous giver of giant candy bars, is outdoing himself again. “This Halloween, I am going big or I am going home,” Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers’ Almanac, said Monday. Actually, he’ll be at his Brentwood Avenue home Friday night, along with his troop of volunteers, to […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
Lewiston-Auburn This week Monday, Oct. 27 LEWISTON — Lewiston Youth Advisory Council presents the kickoff to its public image campaign at 2:30 p.m. in City Hall. This is an effort to get residents to show their love for Lewiston. AUBURN — City Council meeting workshop, 6 p.m., in Auburn Hall. Meeting begins with a 30-minute […]
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Norway Downtown Halloween Festival broke records
NORWAY — The ninth annual Norway Downtown Halloween Festival was a record breaking success with more than 2,500 children and adults participating. The smiling participants made their way along Main Street trick-or-treating, entering raffles, playing games and enjoying refreshments. Along the journey they met with Smokey The Bear, Cat In The Hat, Sparky, Baxter, Newbie, […]
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C. Pelkey: And another light is turned off
After moving to Lewiston from a smaller town, I had hopes of receiving more trick-or-treaters on Halloween. We did get more, but they were older than a trick-or-treater should be, and seldom was a costume even attempted. This year, my boys, ages 4 and 2, were old enough to go trick-or-treating. My wife urged us […]
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Suspicious package in Orono turns out to be discarded Halloween costume
ORONO — A suspicious package turned out to be a discarded Halloween costume once it had been exploded by the Bangor police bomb squad, Police Chief Josh Ewing said Sunday. Ewing said Orono police received a report midmorning Sunday that the item, which was about the size of a cereal box and appeared to have […]
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Pumpkin Run is last for founder at Auburn Middle School
AUBURN — Seventh-graders on Team Tumbledown at Auburn Middle School took part in the 20th annual Pumpkin Run on Thursday. It was both a milestone and a special day, teachers said, because it was the last Pumpkin Run for teacher Steve Robertson. Robertson, who came to Auburn in 1983, founded the Pumpkin Run 20 years […]
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This is how you celebrate Halloween
AUBURN — Residents are ready with candy. The staff is ready with a haunted house, complete with a monster under the bed and a graveyard scene. From 5 to 6:30 p.m., trick-or-treaters ages 4 to 10 are invited to show off their costumes, score some candy and get scared at Clover Health Care’s haunted house […]
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Reports of noises, movements give haunting feel to Gingerbread House
NORWAY — Halloween is the perfect time for a scary story. And the 1851 Gingerbread House has its share of footsteps, moved objects and unexplained anomalies. While renovations continue on what many consider to be an iconic building on Main Street, there have been multiple reports by contractors and volunteers of strange events inside and […]