NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank has hired Jackie Curtis as vice president, human resources. Curtis will lead recruitment and retention strategies, manage human resources operations/services, and partner with managers to ensure employees have opportunities to thrive and grow, according to a news release from the bank. Curtis comes to the bank with more than 20 […]
Alex Lear
A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
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Jay pharmacy earns best exterior sign award
JAY — Spruce Mountain Pharmacy has earned the Innovation Center Excellence Award for Best Exterior Sign, according a news release from the National Community Pharmacists Association. “Congratulations to Spruce Mountain Pharmacy for earning the NICE Award for Best Exterior Sign,” association Innovation Center President Kurt Proctor said. “The NICE Awards spotlight the best of community […]
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Peggy Volock: Don’t endanger quality of Auburn’s drinking water
I am one of the Auburn citizens mentioned in Jim Wellehan’s letter to the editor who spoke against shrinking the Lake Auburn watershed boundary at the March 21 City Council meeting. The last geophysical and hydrologic study of the impact area was done in 1993, and even then it concluded that “correlations between the bedrock […]
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Martin Keim: Auburn needs housing, but not at water supply
I wonder, why change the zoning around Auburn water supply? Auburn has many acres of available land to build housing and development on. Who is going to profit from this development? Historically housing with water views and/or near a lake is for the wealthy. We need affordable housing. People should look around the world; water […]
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Sen. Lisa Keim: Resolution to halt vaccine mandate needs support
The U.S. Senate recently voted 49-44 in support of a resolution to halt President Biden’s overreaching and unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. I applaud Sen. Susan Collins for standing up for freedom by voting in support of the resolution, and I express my disappointment that Sen. Angus King voted in opposition. In […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
There is a qualitative difference between protecting diversity of opinion from official encroachment and inventing some magical “right” to say any harebrained thing you want without being “shamed or shunned.” Such a “right” would be more dangerous than the problem it purports to correct.
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Caleb Roebuck: ‘Hypocritical,’ ‘undemocratic’ behavior by some Lewiston councilors
Recent actions by some on the Lewiston City Council have been hypocritical, callous and undemocratic. First the Council decided to take away the public’s voice by reversing course on a referendum to establish a Charter Commission. Then some members refused to vote in support of a highly qualified appointee to the Planning Board and remained […]
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Judy Hierstein: Lake Auburn needs protection, not pollution
Lake Auburn, without treatment, is the water supply for Lewiston and Auburn. But a zoning change passed by Auburn’s city council on March 21 might change that. It would allow development along Gracelawn Road, where there is a gravel pit and an old dump. Wells drilled there 15 years ago showed water flowing south, but […]
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Kayt Davis: Pause gas tax, give Mainers, tourists a break
I wonder if I’m the only one who plays this game. Drive out Center Street checking the gas prices and drive back to the one that is the cheapest, even if only by 2 cents. Given the upward trend in the cost of gas, I’m considering signing up for a program that will save me […]