There comes a time in every shopper’s life when one must stop and smell the roses. Or the rose-scented body wash. This week Bag Lady and Shopping Siren pause to reflect. Consider. Update. A retail roundup, if you will. Also, there’s ice cream. Or there will be ice cream. So maybe we’re really just stopping […]
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Paris police create safe trading zone
PARIS — The Police Department is providing its property on Church Street as a safe trading zone for sellers and buyers on websites such as Craigslist or eBay. Interim Police Chief Jeffrey Lange said he is offering the parking lot and front reception area for private exchanges of goods for money to help prevent crime. […]
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Poliquin tells Chamber he’s trying to clean up the ‘mess’ called Congress
LEWISTON — Maine 2nd District U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin was lauded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during the monthly breakfast meeting of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. Poliquin, a Republican, was presented with the national business advocacy group’s Spirit of Business award for his work and voting record in Congress […]
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Maine Basketball Club openings The Maine Basketball Club still has openings for its spring AAU basketball teams. Maine Basketball Club is a new organization based out of the Lewiston-Auburn area. We offer spring AAU basketball teams for boys and girls grades 3 through 12. Teams practice once a week and have a skills session once […]
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Legislative committee says yes to Section 8 guns
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Thursday voted 7-6 in favor of a bill that would allow tenants who live in public housing or who receive a federal Section 8 housing voucher to keep guns in their apartments. The final vote came two days after the panel split 4-4 Tuesday on […]
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Lawmakers say Maine DHHS dragging its feet on new lead standards
AUGUSTA — A bipartisan group of Lewiston-Auburn lawmakers is again asking the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to pick up the pace on implementing new lead-poisoning standards that were passed into law more than eight months ago. The change, which would see Maine conform with federal blood-lead levels for children, could set in […]
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Bill to allow guns in Section 8 properties hits stalemate
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on Tuesday continued their debate over the best way to balance the rights of landlords with those of tenants who are receiving public housing subsidies and want to keep firearms. A new proposal offered by Sen. Andre Cushing, R-Hampden, would allow landlords who own and live in multiunit properties with four apartments […]
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Top Democrats, Republicans agree, Maine should become primary state
AUGUSTA — Leading Democratic and Republican state senators said Monday that turnout at the state’s major party caucuses over the weekend was so well attended it shows Maine should become a primary state — with voters from both parties casting their ballots on a single day. The switch would require the state to fund an […]
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Cruz cruises to victory in Maine GOP caucus primary
LEWISTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cruised to a GOP victory in the Pine Tree State on Saturday. Still, Cruz failed to secure more than 51 percent of the total vote, with businessman Donald Trump coming in second and Ohio Gov. John Kasich placing third. Each candidate will be appointed an allotment of Maine’s Republican […]
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Correction: Stavros Mendros’ punishment
A story on the front page of Saturday’s edition about the signature campaign to legalize marijuana in Maine should have reported that in 2007 Stavros Mendros pleaded guilty to three counts of false acknowledgment of oath stemming from misuse of his notary commission. He was fined $1,000 for one of the counts and 500 apiece for […]