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  • Published
    December 30, 2018

    Side By Each Brewing, Poutine Factory nearly ready to serve in Auburn

    In July, brewery partners Ben Low and Matt Johannes received the first commercial loan from the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council since LAEGC moved into the Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

  • Published
    December 30, 2018

    The case of the missing turkey still cold

    Cherie Garnett, who works for the town’s Parks and Recreation Department said the bird was nowhere to be found by town workers when they retrieved the display items last fall for the town’s annual Thanksgiving tableau at the Route 196 and School Street.

  • Published
    December 30, 2018

    People You Know: Chris Silsbee takes over Bradbury Mountain State Park

    On Jan. 1, he’ll lead his second First Day Hike as the park manager. It’s a part of a national park program to get people out and active.

  • Published
    December 28, 2018

    Canton accident victim ID’d

    Officials say Corey Edingbourgh, 36, of Mexico was seriously injured in the Canton Point Road accident that took the lives of Shawn Hodge, 38, of Rumford, and Sarah Bosworth, 26, of Mexico.

  • Published
    December 28, 2018

    Bliss Thru Shopping: What to do New Year’s Eve?

    The New Year is all about endings and beginnings and honoring those in your own way. Vodka is a way, but so is a Nerf war. You do you, writes Shopping Siren.

  • Published
    December 27, 2018

    Brawl erupts in downtown Lewiston

    LEWISTON — At least five people were hurt Thursday night in a brawl on Birch Street following a candlelight vigil downtown. Police said the injured suffered mostly bumps, cuts and a possible broken nose in the 8:45 p.m. scrap at Birch and Blake streets. Witnesses reported seeing large groups of people, some of them armed […]

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    December 27, 2018

    Police officer rescues woman, 72, from Dixfield house fire

    “We did have a little issue with water because the only hydrant on Holt Hill doesn’t have a lot of pressure to it,” Dixfield Fire Chief Scott Dennett said. “But we were able to contain the majority of the fire damage to the attic area.”

  • Published
    December 27, 2018

    Lewiston police find body of armed man after search in woods

    LEWISTON — Police scoured the woods next to the Maine Turnpike on Thursday afternoon after a despondent man ran into the woods there armed with a handgun. More than a dozen officers searched for more than an hour before the 59-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. During the tense hour-and-a-half of searching, […]

  • Published
    December 24, 2018

    Spruce Mountain principal TJ Plourde no longer employed in district

    Superintendent Todd LeRoy says Thomas Plourde was not fired, only moved as part of a process to reduce the administrative team.

  • Published
    December 17, 2018

    Jay man accused of pointing gun at woman in Walmart parking lot

    Andrew Deering was being held on $1,000 cash bail at the Franklin County jail.