LEWISTON — Jana Dumont’s youngest son aspires to one day wear a badge and patrol his neighborhood looking for bad guys. In fact, the Lewiston mother said her 4-year-old likes police officers so much that he often stops the men in blue no matter where he is to strike up a conversation. So attending Tuesday’s […]
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Callahan Hall backdrop for folk music, dancing
LEWISTON — French and Scottish music will share the spotlight at a double-header contra dance on Friday, Aug. 10, at Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Providing music for an hourlong family dance, starting at 7 p.m., will be vintage Canadian-born fiddler Maurice Pelletier backed up by his wife, Marie, on spoons and Don […]
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Casella proposes single-sort recycling hub in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Casella Solid Waste would build a $4 million facility at the Lewiston landfill on River Road to sort recyclable materials, according to a plan presented to the City Council on Monday. According to the plan, the 15,000-square-foot facility would take unsorted recyclables from around Maine and mechanically sort them for sale on the […]
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Bates Dance Festival
Keigwin + Company, known to be clever, kinetic and theatrical — but unpretentious, will perform Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 2-4, as part of the Bates Dance Festival. Larry Keigwin first attended the festival more than 20 years ago and has participated as a choreographer, faculty member and featured mainstage performer. Last year, he choreographed a new musical, […]
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River Views: Greene family steeped in history
Every once in a while, one of my Internet searches for column material gets sidetracked by some fascinating information that has nothing to do with the subject of my research. Recently, I had been looking for stories about old baseball teams of the Lewiston-Auburn area when a story in an April 1923 edition of the […]