LEWISTON — Marketing efforts designed to bring business to the Twin Cities will concentrate more on spreading the word directly and bringing more Maine businesses in for a visit. “A primary piece of business development marketing is meeting executives — and then meeting executives and meeting executives some more,” said John Holden, president of the […]
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MONDAY, March 21 AUBURN — City Council workshop and regular meeting in the City Council Chamber on the second floor of Auburn Hall. The workshop begins at 5:30 p.m. and the topic is committee work, as well as an executive session. Regular meeting is at 7 p.m. LEWISTON — School Committee budget meeting, 6 p.m., […]
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Lewiston’s first public charter school wins final approval
LEWISTON — Lewiston-Auburn is getting its first public charter school this fall. The Maine Charter School Commission gave final approval Tuesday for Acadia Academy to open an elementary school, Commission Executive Director Bob Kautz said. The vote was 6-0. “We are certainly excited,” Acadia Academy President Christopher Brann, a local banker, said. “We have certainly […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Feb. 15 LEWISTON-AUBURN — Schools closed for vacation all week. Also Presidents Day, government and some businesses closed. TUESDAY, Feb. 16 AUBURN — City Council Community and Economic Development Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in Room 204, second floor of Auburn Hall. LEWISTON — City Council workshop and regular meeting in the City Council Chamber […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Feb. 8 The Sun Journal is hosting a lunchtime live blog at noon on www.sunjournal.com with the Lewiston-Auburn Charter Commission and its consultants from CGR Consulting. The topic will be the effort to combine Lewiston and Auburn, and what the consultants learned from a meeting with city groups and staffers last week. LEWISTON — Lunchtime […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Feb. 1 AUBURN — City Council workshop and regular meeting in the City Council Chamber on the second floor of Auburn Hall. The workshop is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. The regular meeting follows at 7 p.m. LEWISTON — School Committee regular meeting at Dingley Building, 6:45 p.m. On agenda: presentation by Longley […]
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Lewiston-Auburn charter consultants hosting meetings this week
LEWISTON — A draft charter that sketches out how a combined Twin Cities government would work answered some questions when it was released last month, but not all of them. “There are so many things that have to be dived into,” Charter Commission Chairman Gene Geiger said. “We have to look into city operations, schools, police […]
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Lewiston-Auburn charter effort moves ahead
LEWISTON — Efforts to combine the Twin Cities are moving forward, despite lacking all the money needed for consulting and legal services. With a $50,000 state grant in the bank, the group working to help combine Lewiston and Auburn said Wednesday it planned to release its first draft of a new charter near the end […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Jan. 11 AUBURN — City Council workshop meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers on the second floor of Auburn Hall. New councilors are scheduled to continue their city orientation. LEWISTON — Lewiston School Committee, 6:45 p.m., downtown Dingley Building. First meeting of the new committee. On agenda: presentation of adult education, nomination […]
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Auburn celebrates 35 years of community building as Roland Miller retires
AUBURN — In 1980, when Roland Miller was hired by the city of Auburn, he figured it would be a five-year job. A Midwestern guy by birth, raised in Green Bay and a lifelong Packers fan, he thought the city was a fine place to build his resume before he moved on to the next […]