The city of Auburn is hosting its second annual New Year’s Eve Auburn party from 6 p.m. to midnight at Festival Plaza on Main Street after a successful inaugural year.
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Baldacci spaghetti fundraiser seeks to help 95-year-old scam victim from Auburn
Former governor calls community response to his fundraiser “amazing.” He hopes to help replace a 95-year-old woman’s stolen life savings.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Auburn police warn coyotes are in town, but they’re likely to leave us alone
Police say the wild animals usually avoid humans, but they can take pets.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
A 36-acre lot beside Lake Auburn will be preserved as open space
Once part of Whiteholm Farm, a dairy, the land will be opened for low-impact recreation as soon as next year.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Maine Crime
Man helps inmates find hope, purpose through jail ministry
Bruce Noddin helps provide spiritual guidance and council to inmates at Androscoggin County Jail.
Posted inBusiness
Auburn OKs Maine’s ‘first and only cannabis business park’ expansion
Auburn issued three building permits for Mystique Way, Maine’s “first and only cannabis business park.”
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Proposed Maine local option tax would be a losing proposition
Border-county businesses would forfeit sales, and taxpayers in most of the state’s municipalities would see little benefit.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Auburn man seeks dismissal of DNA, firearm evidence in Alaska rape and murder case
Lawyers for Stephen H. Downs, 45, of Auburn filed motions Monday in an Alaska court seeking the dismissal of all DNA evidence and evidence of Downs’ possession of weapons connected with the 1993 rape and slaying of a former student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Regulators focus on Lewiston’s Marshwood nursing home as problems mount
Five Maine nursing homes are on a federal list of problem facilities. Four, including Marshwood Center, are owned by the same national company.
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Three arrested after counterfeit bills used at Home Depot in Auburn
Shaniya Jade Simmons, 19, Sadie Hiers, 22, and Shawn Vincent Brooks, 22, all of Bronx, New York, were arrested and charged with aggravated forgery after allegedly using counterfeit money to purchase high-value items at the Auburn Home Depot.