LEWISTON — Fingernails plucked guitar strings. A violin bow scraped over its strings and knuckles rapped against the body of a polished, classical guitar. But it was the plucking sound — in a particularly dramatic moment of “Duo Sonidos,” an exquisite 30-minute set — that spawned giggles among the 100 or so fourth-graders in the audience at […]

AUBURN — A former Bates College student was sent to jail and, along with three others, ordered to perform community service for his role in a May 2010 melee at the Lewiston campus involving hundreds of students. Eleven students were arrested and charged in the late-night gathering that blocked the pathway of an ambulance responding […]

LEWISTON — When world peace broker and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was a Waterville High School student, he lacked confidence, was “an indifferent student,” and only read what he had to, plus comic books. One teacher helped him change that, and his life, Mitchell said. It’s an example of the power of […]