Steven Dostie, executive director, announced the winners of the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society’s Annual Summer Raffle. With more than $8,700 in tickets sales, the winners were Dawn Cloutier of Greene winning $500 cash; Andrew Tibbetts of Lewiston, $300 cash; Richard Disney of Lisbon Falls, $200 cash, and Saundra Martel of Turner, $100 cash. All proceeds […]
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Negotiations with city, labor unions ongoing
LEWISTON — Negotiations between the city and all six labor unions are ongoing, but Deputy City Administrator Phil Nadeau said he might be able to bring one proposal to city councilors within a month. “We really began once the fiscal year ended, but there are always delays,” Nadeau said. “It takes longer than you expect […]
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Center for Wisdom’s Women list month’s activities
LEWISTON — This month The Center for Wisdom’s Women launches two new monthly programs in addition to its weekly Writer’s Workshop held on Monday mornings: A poetry group on the 8th and a journal writing group on the 22nd. Other highlighted programs this month include a SARK session designed to nurture creativity on the 15th, […]
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Recognize this photo?
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Public Library is partnering with the Sun Journal in an effort to solve the “Mystery of the Unknown Buildings” in its Gridley Barrows Collection. Back in 1999, when Lewiston architect and local historian Gridley Barrows died, the LPL received his collection of 5,244 photographic slides and more than 600 prints depicting […]
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Rapper and his DJ will give outdoor concert at Bates
LEWISTON — Fresh from their national touring debut as headliners, Seattle rapper Macklemore and his producer/DJ, Ryan Lewis, will give an an open-air performance at Bates College on Friday, Sept. 16. Open to the public at no cost, the 8 p.m. concert will be on the Library Quad, accessed from Campus Avenue between Chase Hall […]
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High school cross country preview
Class A The Mt. Blue boys might have been poised to challenge for a top-five placement in the state and a KVAC championship. That optimism is tempered somewhat by a possible season-ending injury to No. 1 runner Jonah Jones. Justin Tracy and Sully Jackson are sure to pick up the pace and try to fill […]
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Eats: True confessions: The tale of an innkeeper and her deceptively tasty shortcuts
Jan Barrett, owner of the Ware Street Inn in Lewiston, is coming clean. When it comes to cooking — whether for herself, overnight guests at her historic inn or for an occasional girlfriends get-together — she’s letting the cat out of the bag. Or in her words, she’s spillin’ the beans: Not all her cooking […]
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Job outlook got another boost last week
As far as Tuesdays go, last week’s was a good one, at least for the L-A economy. Affiliated Computer Services, which already employs 417 people on East Avenue in Lewiston, announced it will hire 200 more. ACS provides call-in support, mainly for the retail and health-care industries, and it needs new employees quickly. The workers […]
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A brother leaving for his next adventure: Jim Roux’s sisters look back
Constance Roux Scalera called her daughter that morning, worried. Katie Papkee lived 10 miles from the heart of Washington, D.C., and worked for the U.S. Senate. Her mother heard about the plane crashing into the Pentagon. Was she OK? Papkee was home, and fine. Neither woman knew to worry about Papkee’s big brother, Jim. He […]