Joshua Boyd claims the gun discharged accidentally.
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COVID-19 crunches cookie sales, but Maine Girl Scouts avoid big surplus
Maine Girl Scout troops still reported more than $4 million in sales this year, while sweetly dodging the large surpluses faced nationally.
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‘It’s an employee’s market’: Students help fill the demand for labor in Maine
With many Maine employers looking everywhere for workers, the local prospects look good for students seeking summer jobs this year.
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Attorney General will not proceed with probe into pro-Palestine graffiti at Bates College
The Maine A.G.’s Office said the pro-Palestine writing expressed opinions “that would not be actionable under the Maine Civil Rights Act.”
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Proposal to extend passenger rail into Androscoggin County picks up steam among state legislators
Bills to fund studies of service to Lewiston, Bangor and more are moving toward approval and could lay groundwork for federal aid down the tracks.
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Lewiston 13-year-old dies after being rescued from Androscoggin River
The girl was playing in the river with friends and family Monday evening when she went underwater.
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MDA Assembles 200 cleaning and hygiene kits
MANCHESTER — The Maine Dental Association recently partnered with nonprofit organization Maine Needs to assemble and distribute 200 cleaning and hygiene kits to four sites. The association, through its donation campaign called Maine Needs a Smile, collected personal hygiene items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, and shampoo, and basic cleaning supplies, like laundry detergent, all-purpose cleaner, […]
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Shortage of psychiatrists in Maine causing a ‘crisis’
PORTLAND – Dr. Joan Leitzer, a Portland-based psychiatrist, has been “retiring for months.” “I am doing it the old-fashioned way,” she said, and is working to get each of the approximately 60 patients in her practice transferred to a new provider before she retires. But psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and other mental and behavioral health […]
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Dress code change has roots in Bates College mentoring program
Lewiston Middle School students were working with Bates College student mentors on racial equity issues.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Lewiston immigrants help plan for a warmer, more seamless transition for refugees
With the potential for hundreds of refugees arriving in the next year, a coalition of five immigrant-led groups in Lewiston has started meeting to plan how to make the arrivals go more smoothly and how to make Lewiston feel like home.