LEWISTON — Mayor Larry Gilbert will host another Saturday morning breakfast chat Oct. 23 at the Governor’s Restaurant at 1185 Lisbon St. The chat is an opportunity for residents and Lewiston voters to come by, meet with the mayor and discuss ideas and concerns about how the city operates. The coffee talk is scheduled from […]
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Lewiston still needs poll workers
LEWISTON — Republicans are needed to work the city’s polls on Election Day, City Clerk Kathy Montejo said. State law requires the city to have an equal number of Democrats and Republicans working at the polls as election clerks. “We need to hire about 10 additional Republican election clerks,” Montejo said. “For this election, we […]
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Boys’ soccer: Devils enter playoffs with 11 consecutive wins
The season started with two losses in its first three games. That’s not exactly what the Lewiston boys’ soccer team had in mind for this fall. The Blue Devils had nine players back and enough speed to leave most of the KVAC behind. But an opening night loss to Morse and then another defeat at […]
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Stiff upper lips: Mayors offer mustache challenge to promote prostate cancer awareness
AUBURN — Twin Cities mayors will challenge each other’s upper-lip-follicle prowess throughout November, seeing who can grow the best mustache to promote prostate cancer awareness. Auburn Mayor Dick Gleason challenged Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert at a special workshop meeting of both city councils Monday night in Auburn Hall. Gilbert accepted the challenge, then extended it […]
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Lewiston council avoids Oxford casino position
LEWISTON — It’s none of the City Council’s business what voters decide on the casino question next month. Councilors stopped short of adopting a resolution opposing ballot Question 1, which would approve a casino in Oxford County. Councilors voted 3-4 against the resolution with Larry Poulin, Mark Cayer and Stephen Morgan all supporting it. It […]
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Resurrected strategic plan worth updating, councilor says
LEWISTON — A renewed citywide strategic plan shouldn’t sit on a shelf, one city councilor said Tuesday. Councilors gave high marks to the latest version of a strategic plan that had been set aside soon after the first draft was released. City Councilor Mark Cayer said that shouldn’t happen again. “The most important sentence in […]
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Boys’ soccer: Blue Devils sink Shipbuilders
LEWISTON — Lewiston, as a team, controlled the first half. The Blue Devils possessed the ball well, ran the field well and defended well as they battled Morse in a season-ending, Heal Points-rich boys’ soccer contest at Don Roux Field on Tuesday. They just couldn’t find the back of the net. The Devils continued their […]
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Shared Twin City software program picking up speed
AUBURN — Work adopting a shared software suite for the Twin Cities government has been slow going, but officials are confident they will be significantly finished by June 2011. “This is an evolutionary process, not revolutionary,” Auburn City Manager Glenn Aho told a joint meeting of the Lewiston and Auburn city councils Monday. “I think […]
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Veteran brings together ‘family of soldiers’
LEWISTON — Despite dozens of monuments and thousands of names, Joseph Paradis felt something was missing from Veterans Memorial Park. Every two or three days, the 80-year-old Korean War veteran walks the park on the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River. Paradis, a prisoner of war during his service in Korea, thought of the white […]
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Road construction schedule
Oct. 18-22 Auburn Work location: Begins: Done by: Status: Miami Avenue, at Washington North and South Monday Nov. 12 Delays Old Danville Road, Moose Brook to city line Ongoing October Detour Route 136 at the Durham town line Ongoing October Closed Main Street, Academy to bridge Ongoing November Delays Hotel Road at Youngs Corner Ongoing […]