LEWISTON — After 40 years, Mike Small is ready to leave the greenhouse. He said Thursday he plans to sell Roak the Florist, where he started working under his dad as a teenager. George M. Roak started the business around 1846 out of his home in Auburn. It moved to Court Street, then Center Street, […]
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Lewiston police say woman’s death in florist’s parking lot not suspicious
LEWISTON — Police ruled that the death of a 57-year-old woman found Wednesday morning in a parking lot off Main Street was an apparent suicide. The woman was from the greater Lewiston area. Her body was discovered in the parking lot near one of the greenhouses at Roak the Florist. The Maine Office of the Chief […]
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4,000 signs of spring in Lewiston
Mike Small of Roak the Florist in Lewiston waters some of the 4,000 geraniums he has growing in one of the greenhouses on Tuesday. “Just about everyone is about a week late getting started, but with days like today they will catch up quickly and be ready for Mothers Day and Memorial Day which is […]