AUBURN — Don’t expect to hear a lot from members of the Lewiston-Auburn Charter Commission on Thursday night. “Essentially, we are going to introduce ourselves and say ‘Ok, ladies and gentlemen, what do you want to tell us?’” Chairman Gene Geiger said. “We’re going to try to say little or nothing. I’m going to write […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
Week of Aug. 25 MONDAY AUBURN — Special City Council meeting at 6 p.m. for an executive session to discuss the employee evaluation of and the city’s contract with City Manager Clinton Deschene. WEDNESDAY LEWISTON — Lewiston-Auburn Bike-Ped Committee, 5 p.m. in City Hall first- floor executive conference room. AUBURN — Downtown Auburn Form Based Code […]
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Lewiston-Auburn Charter Commission: Lewiston candidate Chantell Pettengill
Name: Chantel Pettengill Email address [email protected] Facebook Page? Chantel-Pettengill-for-the-Lewiston-Joint-Charter-Commission Occupation or primary source of income Owner of Pettengill Academy. Education Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from the University of Maine at Farmington. Family information Husband, Zack Pettengill. Daughter, 4, and son, 2½. Public offices sought or held This is the first office I […]
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Lewiston-Auburn College facing changes
LEWISTON — Changes may be coming to University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. USM President Theodora Kalikow has proposed dropping arts and humanities — one of L-A College’s four undergraduate programs — restructuring staff and cutting an unspecified number of faculty from the college as part of a USM-wide effort to fill a $14 million […]
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John Thomas Manchester
1944 – 2013 CAMARILLO, Calif. — John Thomas Manchester died peacefully in his sleep at home in Camarillo, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 4. He was born in Portland on Nov. 29, 1944, the son of Dr. Virgil Manchester and Juanita Crow Manchester, and spent his youth growing up in Lewiston-Auburn. After serving in the U.S. […]
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Eats: Award-winning apple pies celebrate autumn
Not to be outdone by summer, autumn in Maine is a smorgasbord of comfort and familiarity, a feast for all the senses. Hillsides are covered with brilliant shades of yellow, red and orange, much to the delight of locals and tourists. School buses once again rumble through towns while mothers snap photographs in celebration at […]
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B. Drake: Helpful people of L-A
I have worked and lived in the Lewiston-Auburn area for some time, though I am not a native. Often, it seems, this fine community has not been given its worth. Several weeks ago, I encountered a car problem and pulled over in Great Falls Plaza to see what was wrong. The hood was lifted up […]