LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus, the designated Area Agency on Aging serving Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, announces Patrice Currie of Auburn is its new nutrition director. Currie was director of food services at Mercy Hospital in Portland for 11 years, and prior to that worked in other areas of the food and hospitality industry. As part […]
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Webinar offered on selling to government
LEWISTON — A lunch-and-learn Zoom webinar titled on how Maine Procurement Technical Assistance Center assists small businesses to sell to the government will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16. It is presented by the Eastern Maine Development Corp. and Maine Procurement Technical Assistance Center, in partnership with the Lewiston-Auburn Metro Chamber […]
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UScellular donates $112,600 in wireless hot spots and service to YWCA Central Maine’s After School Access Project
LEWISTON — UScellular has donated 100 wireless hot spots and two years of service to the YWCA Central Maine as part of its After School Access Project. More than 40 million people in the United States lack reliable access to high-speed internet, leaving to youth lacking proper internet access. The project provides free mobile hot […]
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State panel backs creation of new rail trail between Auburn and Portland
Rail Use Advisory Council endorses a 26-mile path for bicycles and pedestrians along an unused rail corridor.
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Bates College expects to pick a new president this spring
With Clayton Spencer stepping down in June, the college is scrambling to find her successor.
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Mapping the history of New England’s once-booming textile industry
USM’s Osher Map Library offers an exhibit on the Northeast’s textile mills, including Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston, whose economic power for 100 years changed life in scores of cities and towns.
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Area students make Plymouth State University president’s list
PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Several area students have made the 2022 fall semester president’s list at Plymouth State University. They include Megan Verrill of Auburn, Alaina Adderley of Buckfield, Emma Winning of Bryant Pond, Tyler Hunter of Fryeburg, Emily Wallace of Harrison, Morgan Bilodeau of Lewiston, Ellery Hunt of Bridgton, Lydia Pinard of Gray, Reilly Brown […]
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Bates College alumnus Marshall Hatch Jr. talks community, leadership
The Bates graduate is now a minister, as was his father and grandfather, working to better conditions in Chicago’s West Side.
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Jan. 30 LEWISTON — School Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. at The Green Ladle, 156 East Ave. TUESDAY, Jan. 31 AUBURN — Appointment Committee meeting, 4 p.m. in the Community Room at Auburn Hall. LEWISTON — City Council special meeting, 6 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall. Council is meeting in executive session. […]