LISBON – The School Committee and Town Council continued their efforts to save taxpayer dollars at a meeting Monday night on the proposed $14.7 million school budget. The committee will vote on the budget May 12, and the council will vote on May 20. In discussions ranging from sharing office space to using town mechanics […]
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NAMI Maine to host Suicide Prevention Awareness Night
AUBURN — NAMI Maine, National Alliance on Mental Illness, will host a a free Suicide Prevention Awareness Night on Thursday, May 1, in Auburn at the Hilton Garden Inn. The training is being sponsored by Tri-Country Mental Health Services, Healthy Androscoggin, Lewiston public schools and the Auburn School Department. The presentation is intended to develop suicide […]
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Students: Holocaust history shows how discrimination accelerated
LEWISTON – While she ate lunch with friends in the Lewiston Middle School cafeteria, eighth-grader Jordan Girouard said she couldn’t believe how Holocaust victims were starved and forced to do slave labor. Jamie Poliquin was aghast “how they would throw babies into a pit like they were nothing, and how skinny the people were.” Before […]
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Police respond to report of bomb at Lewiston pharmacy
LEWISTON — Police on Monday evening checked the CVS pharmacy at 446 Sabattus St. after a bomb threat. According to Lt. David St. Pierre of the Lewiston Police Department, the threat was called in at 5:22 p.m. Officers blocked off the parking lot while the store was evacuated. A Maine State Police dog was brought […]
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Civil War general from Leeds subject of museum program
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine State Museum in Augusta is hosting a program about Civil War general and Leeds, Maine, native Oliver Otis Howard. Author Gordon Weil will speak at the event. He wrote “The Good Man: The Civil War’s ‘Christian General’ and His Fight for Racial Equality” about Howard in 2013. Howard led the […]
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Maine readies ‘report cards’ for schools
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine is compiling report cards for its schools for the second year. The Maine Department of Education says it developed the system in 2013 to bring more transparency and accountability to schools across the state. The DOE assigns letter grades based on student proficiency and how students are improving. At the high […]
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Dover-Foxcroft shooting victim’s name released
DOVER-FOXCROFT (AP) — Dover-Foxcroft police have released the name of the man shot during a fight in town earlier this week, but have not yet announced any criminal charges in the case. Police said Thursday that 48-year-old Reginald Melvin, of Dexter, was shot three times during a dispute on Lancaster Street at about 6 a.m. […]
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Democrats running for Congress square off in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Democrats vying to be their party’s candidate in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District discussed a range of issues Thursday during a forum at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. State Sens. Emily Cain, D-Orono, and Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, seemed to agree more than […]
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State announces new contracts for troubled MaineCare ride program
AUGUSTA — The state will not renew a contract with a company hired to broker rides for MaineCare patients, according to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Coordinated Transportation Solutions, a Connecticut-based company that employs about 45 call-center workers in Lewiston, will lose its $28 million contract when it expires June 30. CTS can […]