WILTON — Tuesday’s election produced a first-time selectperson: Philip Hilton won the three-year seat, replacing Jeff Adams, who was elected in 2015. Tom Saviello will return for his third term as a selectperson, finishing out the remaining year of Ruth Cushman’s three-year term. Saviello is on the Planning Board, and will need to resign from that […]
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Kristi Dunham: ‘Keep smiling’
Kristi Dunham Chamber President Beckie Conrad announced at the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Thursday that the Hilton Garden Inn’s Kristi Dunham was one of five people chosen for a monthly hospitality award out of the Hilton’s 220,000 worldwide employees. Dunham, who lives in Lisbon and is the hotel’s event coordinating manager, […]
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Emerging markets topic of January Chamber breakfast
AUBURN — Tae Chong, a business adviser with Coastal Enterprise Inc.’s StartSmart Program, will be the guest speaker at the January Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The breakfast will be held at 7 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch. Chong’s topic will be emerging markets and an emerging workforce. StartSmart […]
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Schott proposing Augusta hotel
AUBURN — Auburn-based developer George Schott is proposing a four-story, 120-room hotel in Augusta. The Kennebec Journal has reported that the project will cost $12 million and be developed by Schott and Florida-based Ocean Properties. The two also developed the Residence Inn Marriott in Auburn near a number of Schott’s other developments. The hotel is […]
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Fact-finding report submitted to RSU 73 board, union
LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board and the RSU 73 Education Association received a report from a fact-finding committee Thursday and association President Rob Taylor that said the union will meet soon to go over the report’s recommendations. Education Association chief negotiator Julie Taylor said details of the recommendations may not be made public […]
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NAMI Maine to host Suicide Prevention Awareness Night
AUBURN — NAMI Maine, National Alliance on Mental Illness, will host a a free Suicide Prevention Awareness Night on Thursday, May 1, in Auburn at the Hilton Garden Inn. The training is being sponsored by Tri-Country Mental Health Services, Healthy Androscoggin, Lewiston public schools and the Auburn School Department. The presentation is intended to develop suicide […]
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‘Moonlight and Magnolias’ leads to madness and mayhem
Comedic whirlwind focuses on real-life Hollywood in 1939 LEWISTON — What would you get if you put three legendary moviemakers in a locked office full of peanuts and bananas for a five-day marathon screenplay rewrite of a classic 1930s book? Why, “Gone with the Wind,” of course. And that’s the basis for “Moonlight and Magnolias,” […]
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Police plan would shuffle parking lots
AUBURN — According to a plan presented to City Council Monday, the city would begin labeling downtown lots to better manage parking. Police Chief Phil Crowell said his department is now in charge of managing parking downtown, and he unveiled a plan that would shift some permit parking from one lot to another and increase […]