LEWISTON – A public input session to provide feedback and further inform the draft of the first-ever Maine State Plan on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at St. Mary’s D’Youville Pavilion, 102 Campus Ave. The development of Maine’s state plan was initiated as a […]
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D. Taylor: It starts with a dream
I loved the story in the Sunday paper (April 29), “Livin’ downtown and lovin’ it.” It was a story about individuals who had a vision and were willing to invest in the future. Those people choose to live and invest in the downtown. They were not placed there by a government program. They were willing […]
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Lewiston Middle School students’ mural chosen in recycling competition
LEWISTON — A group of Lewiston Middle School students has won $500 from Portland-based ecomaine to decorate one of the nonprofit’s massive recycling containers. The 13 students are part of the 21st Century Community Learning Center’s Lewiston Educational Achievement Program, or LEAP. Each student contributed to a recycling-themed mural and LEAP submitted the design to […]
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Correction: Parade is May 26
LEWISTON — The Memorial Day parade and ceremony in Lewiston and Auburn, sponsored by the L & A Veterans Council, will take place Saturday, May 26. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the ceremony will follow at Veterans Memorial Park. The date was incorrectly reported to the Sun Journal for an item published […]
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40 percent of Maine births are to single mothers: Experts look at what it means
Game over. She was better off single. Catherine Audet got pregnant by someone she’d dated casually. He wanted an abortion. She said forget it. “There was definitely no marriage talk,” she said. Stephanie Mills found out she was expecting after she and her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half had broken up. Tying the knot came up, […]
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Stories from single moms in Maine: Making it work
Forty percent of Maine births are now to single moms, up from 30 percent of all births 10 years ago. These are a series of vignettes of Maine moms who are raising their children on their own. We talked to them as part of an examination of a growing trend of births to single moms in […]
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Motorcyclist injured on Lown Bridge in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A Lewiston man was being kept in the hospital overnight after crashing his motorcycle into the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge. Joshua Ackley, 33, of Lewiston was headed toward Auburn at 8:01 p.m. when his Kawasaki’s tire hit a patch of dirt in the road, Sgt. Michael Whalen said. “(He) lost control of his […]
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Central Maine Christian Academy honor roll
LEWISTON — Central Maine Christian Academy, 390 Main St., recently held an awards ceremony for the third quarter of the 2011-12 school year. High honor certificates: Gabbie St. Hilaire, Sam McGray and AJ Jiminez. Second honor awards: Courtney Fenderson, Dan Field, Brandyn Hobbs, Cassidy Saldana, Amy Jordan, Katelyn McLeod, Ryan McLean, Bennett Shaw, Hannah Pullen, […]
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SeniorsPlus lists class schedule
LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus, the area agency on aging based in Lewiston, offers free (unless noted) classes for the older adult learner. May is Women’s Health Month and Older Americans Month. Celebrate Older Americans Month by joining the group for tea and crumpets from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 8. Share tea and cookies and […]
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Senior college holding meeting, hosting Denny Breau
Denny Breau, well known guitarist, will entertain following the USM Lewiston-Auburn Senior College fifth annual meeting on Tuesday, May 8, at 2 p.m. at the college on the Westminster Street, Lewiston, campus. Hugh Keene, chairman of the board of directors at Senior College, will conduct the meeting and present the volunteers with recognition gifts and […]