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Road construction
Sept. 20-24 Auburn Work location: Begins: Done by: Status: 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 November One lane Lewiston Work location: Begins: […]
Charter company invests in cleaner air, engines
LEWISTON — Scott Riccio is an environmentally friendly kind of guy. He drives plastic jugs over to the transfer station on his lunch hour to make sure they get recycled, and he added motion sensors to office lights so they don’t stay on all the time. He’s also a businessman. Last spring, Riccio spent $1 […]
Hoops program gives kids a shot
LEWISTON — In basketball, you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Some people in one of Lewiston’s largest low-income housing communities are trying to give the children that live there a chance to take some shots at the hoop while giving them a shot at learning about respect and citizenship. Since early […]
Boys soccer: Lewiston speeds to 3-0 win
LEWISTON — Shobow Saban knew he was going to be a marked man Friday night — a well-marked man. The Lewiston forward fully expected the Edward Little boys’ soccer team to defend him vigorously, but he also knew he was going to do what he could to make those efforts futile ones. “They were talking […]
Girls’ Soccer: EL takes advantage of mistakes to drop Lewiston
LEWISTON — The Edward Little girls’ soccer team scored early and late Friday night. That was enough to take control and lead to a sound 5-1 win over Lewiston. The Red Eddies scored just 1:33 into the game and added a second goal with 55 seconds left in the first half for a 2-0 lead. […]
Football: Blue Devils too quick for Indians
SKOWHEGAN — Who needs an advantage in time of possession when you can score on almost every possession? Lewiston’s first-team offense and special teams units scored on five of the eight chances they got to carry and pass the ball Friday, leading the team to a 35-22 win over a clock-chewing, run-based Skowhegan squad on […]
Woman assaulted in Casco, Lewiston man charged
CASCO – The sounds of screaming led police to a Tenney Hill Road home Friday morning where they found a woman who had been beaten nearly unconscious. Shortly after, police found a Lewiston man accused of beating and biting the woman. Cory P. Waugh, 27, of 98 Pine St., was jailed later in the day […]
Jenkins says he’s in, running as write-in for gov
AUBURN — Former Auburn Mayor John Jenkins says he will run as a write-in candidate for governor this fall. Jenkins announced on his Facebook fan page Friday that he would turn in his declaration of candidacy to the secretary of state at 4 p.m. Jenkins had earlier indicated he would run only if he received […]
Moody’s Collision Centers plans L-A shop
AUBURN — The timing, the campaign says, was a coincidence. On Thursday, independent candidate for governor Shawn Moody’s business, Moody’s Collision Centers, joined the new member ranks of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce. Then, with the election only seven weeks away, Moody announced his newest collision center is bound for the Twin Cities next year. […]