More than 200 neighbors attended the grand opening of the Pop Up Garden at 115 Bartlett St. The new public green space is designed to make neighborhood events easy and affordable. The 50-by-100-foot lot with a snack shack is sized for events for up to 50 people. Residents can use it any time, reserve it […]
bartlett street
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Electric wheelchair stolen from double amputee
LEWISTON — After a $12,000 wheelchair was stolen from a man recently, another Lewiston resident had her electric wheelchair stolen Sunday evening. Mary Ann Thompson, a double amputee, said her wheelchair was stolen from behind her apartment on Bartlett Street. Lewiston Police Sgt. Dave St. Pierre said Thompson filed a report Monday morning. Thompson said she […]
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston: No one injured in Bartlett Street apartment fire
LEWISTON — An early-morning fire damaged part of a two-and-a-half-story, three-unit apartment building at 168 Bartlett St. on Friday, displacing as many as seven people. No one was hurt in the fire, which started just before 2 a.m, Lewiston fire Chief Paul LeClair said. The fire began and ended in a second-floor bedroom, LeClair said. […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston fire under investigation; 24 homeless
LEWISTON — Questions remained Wednesday night about the cause of the fire that left two dozen homeless on Birch Street the night before. State and local investigators spent all day examining the fire scene but by evening, no cause was announced. The Office of the State Fire Marshal joined local fire and police officials on […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston fires: Ibrahim found competent to stand trial for arson
LEWISTON — Abdi Ibrahim, the teen facing four charges of arson in a spree of downtown fires last year, has been found competent to stand trial. In January, the case against the now 14-year-old was suspended after District Court Justice John Beliveau found the state had not met its burden proving the Lewiston boy was […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Police investigate report of early morning robbery in Lewiston
LEWISTON – Police early Friday were attempting to determine if a woman had been robbed at gunpoint on Bartlett Street. Shortly before 1 a.m., a woman called 911 to report a man had robbed her and was holding her at gunpoint, police said. The phone was disconnected before further information was given. Minutes after the […]
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on September 30
100 years ago, 1913 Tuesday noon the firm of Lunn & Sweet, shoe manufacturers, Auburn, issued the following statement in regard to the lasters who left their work Saturday morning: “Our lasters left our employ Saturday morning without notice or without making any formal demands or stating their grievances to our firm. Mr. Lunn, who […]