LEWISTON — The city closed down much of East Avenue after a water main break Thursday afternoon. The break was reported after noon at East Avenue and Pleasant Street. This story will be updated.
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Video: August flyover of Lewiston High School construction project
LEWISTON — An aerial view of the construction of the new elementary school and athletic fields at Lewiston High School. Video by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Aerial
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Lewiston Middle School construction drone video
July flyover of the construction site at Lewiston High School where crews are busy on the new athletic fields and elementary school.
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Pair of bears join runner for a morning run near Lake Auburn
AUBURN — A professional runner from Kenya put his skills to the test Wednesday when two bears charged him during his morning training. Moninda Marube said he awoke early to make an 18-mile run from his home on Hotel Road; too early, he would later learn. The black bears who live in the area of […]
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Seeds of Peace a ‘powerful, difficult, beautiful journey’
OTISFIELD — The 25th year of the international camp, Seeds of Peace, kicked off Sunday morning with raising flags of every nation represented, singing campers’ national anthems and hearing from camp Director Leslie Lewin. Their three-week experience to sow seeds of peace, she said, would be a “powerful, difficult, beautiful journey.” It will include dialogue, […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: A lighthouse? In Durham? Ayuh.
DURHAM — Back in 1975, Bob Hackett wanted to live in a lighthouse, so he built one, 10 miles from sea. It went on the market June 14 looking for a new keeper. The Lighthouse, as it’s called, is generating plenty of interest — 7,981 clicks on the real estate listing just last week, the most-clicked house […]
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Concord Coach Lines service begins in Auburn
AUBURN — A Concord Coach Lines bus service connecting Lewiston and Auburn to Portland, Boston and Logan Airport officially began Monday, and customers were already taking advantage of the two Auburn connections to travel south. Officials in downtown Auburn, where one of the connections can be made at the Great Falls Transportation Center, were still […]
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The majestic Casavant organ
Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul In 1916, the renowned pipe organ builders Casavant Freres of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada, installed a three-manual (three keyboard) organ, the Opus 665, in the basement of the half-finished St. Peter’s Church. Twenty-two years later, Dominican brothers — who came from that same southwestern Quebec town and were overseeing […]