LEWISTON — Holocaust survivor Edith Lucas Pagelson nee Herz will be the guest speaker at “brown bag lunch” that Lewiston Mayor Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr., will host Tuesday, May 3. The event is scheduled for noon at the Lewiston Public Library, Callahan Hall, 200 Lisbon St. It is being held as part of National Days […]
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City seeks youth council candidates
LEWISTON — The city is seeking members for the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council for service that will run from July, 2011, to July, 2012. Youth who reside in Lewiston are encouraged to apply for membership on the council, and applications will be made available at Lewiston High School, St. Dominic Academy, Lewiston Middle School, the […]
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City Cab to close after almost 80 years
LEWISTON — The community’s familiar black and yellow cabs will soon be parked to stay. City Cab, which has been collecting fares since 1932, is scheduled to shut down at the end of the night Saturday. Owner Daniel Leonas said the longtime company, based in a garage on Avon Street in Lewiston, has been hurt […]
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Police log
Charges Lewiston * George Anthony Bernard, 27, of 75 Walnut St., violating a protection order and violating conditions of release, 11 a.m. Tuesday on Lisbon Street. * Michael Anthony Cyr, 28, of 1361 Sabattus St., violating bail and driving with a suspended license, 1:35 a.m. Wednesday on Sabattus Street.
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Pair jailed on robbery charges
LEWISTON — One of two robbery suspects remained jailed Wednesday, accused of using strong-arm tactics in an attempt to rob a pair of pedestrians in the downtown area Tuesday morning. Thomas Andrew Farrington, 29, of Oxford Street, remained at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn where he was being held on two counts of robbery […]
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Peaco a model of consistency at Lewiston, UMF
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of four profiles on members of the 2011 Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame. BRUNSWICK — The horsehide has faded, as it does on all old baseballs. It just makes the blue ink stand out more. And it is almost seam-to-seam in blue ink, this baseball which […]
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Montello Elementary School honor roll
LEWISTON — Montello Elementary School has announced the second trimester honor roll: Grade three Arbay Aden, Amanda Beaucage, Chelsea Beaudry, Ryan Belanger, MacKenzie Caraway, Bailey Conant, Ben Dostie, Matthew Drexel, Evalisa Hernandez, Dahir Hassan, Hunter Jensen, Celeste Jeronimo, William Keough, Nyah Levesque, Alicia Michaud, Fatumo Mohamed, Marcus Morse, Kyle Ogden, Alexis Rodriguez, Grace Sewell, Angelina […]
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Girls’ Lacrosse: Oxford Hills outlasts Lewiston
LEWISTON — No junior varsity team. No real feeder system beneath that level, either. No surplus of assistant coaches or substitutes. Those are the round numbers that vex the Oxford Hills girls’ lacrosse team. As for the zero that best represents the heart, soul and talent of the Vikings, it resides in the loss column. […]