This week, the Buzz has bad news on top of bad news if you haven’t made a reservation at Fuel yet: The Lisbon Street French restaurant is entirely booked up through Sept. 8, owner Eric Agren said Thursday. Agren announced Tuesday that he was closing the popular spot after 11 years to spend more time […]
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The Buzz: Another new restaurant going into the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport
This week, the Buzz is in full denial about how close the ski season is. Let’s talk grits instead. Mike and Heather Greenlaw opened Mike’s Runway Diner on Aug. 1 at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, revamping the menu from barbecue-centric to diner comfort food. Mike, a garage door technician for 20 years, said he was […]
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The Buzz: Becket moves into Auburn Baptist Church, church moves into Rolandeau's
This week the Buzz is all about change. Becket Family of Services, a New Hampshire-headquartered nonprofit serving children with behavioral needs, is turning the former Auburn Baptist Church into a new special-purpose private school. The company bought the building and 16-acre property at 227 Poland Road in January and took out a city permit last […]
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The Buzz: Ben's Burritos customers buy more than 300 burritos for strangers
The Buzz this week is full of optimism and burritos. When they opened 18 months ago on Lisbon Street, Ben’s Burritos founders Tricia Tomlinson and Ben Scott created a “Pay It Forward” wall where customers could anonymously buy other people burritos. Someone walking through the door who could not afford a meal could snag one of […]
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The Buzz: Mattress by Appointment opens in Auburn
This week the Buzz is feeling well rested, well fed and well . . . dentaled? Mattress by Appointment opened at 791 Kittyhawk Ave. in Auburn in May, in the same plaza as Dunkin’ Donuts right off exit 75. It is franchisee Mike Phillips’ third location in Maine and Mattress by Appointment’s fourth site for […]
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The Buzz: Auburn Hannaford, Lewiston McDonald’s get overhauls
This week the Buzz is waiting for a Big Mac and trying to find where the baby wipes aisle ended up. In Auburn, a $2.5 million renovation is underway at the Hannaford grocery store on Spring Street. Shelves and stock have been moved around as the store gets new flooring and fixtures. Spokesman Eric Blom […]
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The Buzz: Portland Pie Co. coming to Lincoln Street in Lewiston
This week the Buzz is ready for lunch, and just in time. Lewiston is getting a Portland Pie Co. The pizza shop and pub has signed a letter of intent to go into the shuttered Lincoln Street firehouse that developers Kara Wilbur and Paul Peck saved from demolition last year and hoped to bring back to […]
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The Buzz: Got blueberry? Oakhurst puts wild blueberry milk on the shelves
This week the Buzz tastes like blueberries, hot dogs and … Subarus. On Tuesday, Oakhurst offered newsrooms around Maine a sneak sip of its new Wild Blueberry Milk that will hit shelves at Northern New England retailers including Hannaford, Walmart and Big Apple on Friday. According to a news release, Wild Blueberry Milk’s roots go […]
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The Buzz: Fireside Inn’s half-million-dollar makeover
This week, the Buzz is bringing on the new. First up: It took the new owners of the Fireside Inn & Suites in Auburn three days to start swinging hammers, pulling up rugs and packing up old beds. General Manager Richard “Bud” Nelson said New England Hospitality, based in East Kingston, New Hampshire, closed on the […]
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The Buzz: That what-is-that in Auburn? It’s Mattress Firm.
This week, The Buzz answers a burning question: Just what’s going on between Hobby Lobby and Starbucks over in Auburn? Grab a pillow. It’s Mattress Firm. Developer Tom Auger is building a two-unit pad in the Turner Street Center plaza, one side for a 4,000-square-foot store and one for a 2,600-square-foot store, according to Eric […]