LEWISTON — It could have been a burial scene given the crowd gathered around the grave, cars lining the road, overcast skies and light drizzle starting to fall. Harry Dixon watched quietly, vigilantly, as eight strapping men — young and old — struggled to right the wrong done to his family’s memory over the weekend. […]
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Donors save Central Maine YWCA
LEWISTON — A number of donors, including the Del Gendron family, have pledged enough donations to prompt YWCA officials to cancel immediate plans to close the facility. The announcement was made at a press conference at the YWCA this afternoon. More details from the press conference will be forthcoming here at sunjournal.com.
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150 headstones toppled at Lewiston cemetery
LEWISTON — About 150 gravestones at the Riverside Cemetery were toppled by vandals Thursday night or Friday morning. Some of the stones were 200 years old and weighed 1,000 pounds or more. Many were completely torn from their bases, including those marked with small American flags as veterans’ graves. A few stones had rolled […]
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Lewiston Crime Bulletin
Incident Report Statistics Between 7 a.m. Friday, Aug. 6, and 7 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13, Lewiston police responded to 745 calls for service. Of those calls, 138 were motor vehicle stops. Accidents: 34 Disorderly Disturbances: 50 Domestic Disputes: 12 Arrests: 31 Burglaries Armand’s Auto Body at 31 Blake St. was burglarized overnight Aug. 12-Aug. 13, […]
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Bowdoin students bike from Oregon to Maine
BRUNSWICK — After two months of riding their bicycles from Oregon to Maine, Danielle Willey and Amie Corso pedaled the last leg of the trip Saturday, headed for the Atlantic Ocean. At a boat landing a few miles from Bowdoin College, they rolled their bicycles in the water, breaking out in smiles as they hoisted […]
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In need of better headlines
Residents of Lewiston can be sure of two things: Between Mark LaFlamme’s endless defamation of our city with his continued talk of drugs, hookers, bandits, unsavory Kennedy Park wandering characters (the list is endless), and the Sun Journal’s big, bold headline announcing that 80 percent of Lewiston is infested with bedbugs, who would ever want […]
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Students train cameras on Kennedy Park, ‘culturally, visually interesting place’
LEWISTON — When the camera and boom dropped off officer Tom Murphy, who’d just been filmed against the backdrop of the boarded-up Kennedy Park gazebo, a nearby man shouted out to filmmakers, “Don’t make him look too good!” Two students from Maine Media Workshops’ Four-Week Documentary Film School spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Kennedy […]
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Snowe tours renovated train depot
LEWISTON — Bob Roy Jr.’s labor of love was a trip down memory lane for Sen. Olympia Snowe on Wednesday. Roy took Snowe on a tour of his renovated Ironhorse Court, the building at the dead end of Bates Street behind Central Maine Medical Center. Roy hopes that the complex, the former Maine Central Railroad […]
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Feds may force depot project bids
LEWISTON — Plans to renovate the Grand Trunk railroad depot on Lincoln Street could be delayed by a federal requirement that might send the project out to bid. Members of the Lewiston-Auburn Railroad Board of Directors met Wednesday and voted to approve a joint development agreement for the depot and a lease to an unnamed woman […]
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Assaults reported in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Police were investigating two unrelated assaults early Tuesday morning. Sgt. Rob Ullrich said a man was found beaten on the sidewalk in front of 78 College St. late Monday night. The victim’s name and age were not available by 12:20 a.m. Tuesday. The man was being treated at Central Maine Medical Center. Earlier […]