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Last paddle of the year in Auburn

Rick Speer heads to shore on Lake Auburn near his home on North Auburn Road on Friday after a paddle around the lake. “I wanted to get one more in during December before I hung it up for the year,” said the retired librarian. For a short aerial video of the north end of the lake and the basin, visit sunjournal.com.

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Fishing in the rain

Emmett Johnson, 4, of Auburn casts his line while fishing with his family at the inlet of Lake Auburn on Monday. Johnson, his father, Ryan, mother, Trisha, and three brothers, Nolan, Tanner and Cooper, found time between house projects to go fishing in the rain on a day with no school. “It started raining, but […]

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‘FishKids’ release trout in Lake Auburn

Turner Elementary sixth-graders watch Lynne Richard of the Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission scoop brook trout fry into a cup so pupils can release them into a tributary of Lake Auburn on Thursday. Jane Campbell’s students released 300 trout after watching them grow from eggs in their classroom. Watershed commission educators worked with the pupils […]

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Ice-out called for Lake Auburn

AUBURN — Get your boats ready. Ice-out has officially been declared for Lake Auburn, making it an average year for the spring thaw.  Mary Jane Dillingham, water quality manager for the Auburn Water District, said ice-out was declared Wednesday, with the public boat ramp off Route 4 set to be installed Wednesday afternoon. Ice-out means that […]

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Winter recreation on Lake Auburn

Private land ownership is a cornerstone of Americanism, and when private lands are systematically and deliberately acquired by a quasi-government entity, such acquisitions should have a clear and limited purpose. That purpose shouldn’t restrict or suppress the free use and enjoyment of those public lands when such use doesn’t run counter to the mission of […]

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Summertime reflection

AUBURN — Unusually calm water at midday on Lake Auburn reflects the passing clouds and the surrounding landscape on Lake Shore Drive in Auburn on Wednesday. Temperatures in Lewiston-Auburn topped out in the mid-80s again Wednesday, and the long-range forecast calls for continued warm weather through the next several days.