LEWISTON — Every evening, the Bates College men’s basketball team gears up for practice in rustic Alumni Gym and can’t help but see the Wall of Fame at one end. Before senior guard Graham Safford of Hampden crossed the career 1,000-point threshold Jan. 6, 30 other players had their name etched on a plaque, sharing that […]
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Entrepreneurs focus of Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum on Friday, Feb. 27, will feature a panel discussion titled, “Getting Down to Business: Insights from Local Entrepreneurs.” The program will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. The panel will include a diverse group of Lewiston-Auburn businesspeople, sharing their stories […]
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Some local towns continue to struggle with cost of snow removal
LEWISTON — Five more inches of snow fell in Turner and Bethel on Sunday night and into Monday morning. Lewiston fared slightly better — just 4.5 inches — while Eustis in Franklin County gained 7.3 inches by midday. According to the National Weather Service, Maine has a snowpack of between 20 and 30 inches to […]
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‘Snowhere’ to put it all: It’s affecting all of us
LEWISTON — Public works directors in the Twin Cities said Monday that crews plowing their third major stormstorm in a week will begin snow removal operations Tuesday, a move one business owner said can’t come soon enough. Director of Lewiston Public Works David Jones said his crews are doing their best, but three major storms […]
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Bates College hosts civil rights read-in, talk at Martel School in Lewiston
LEWISTON — “Did your feet hurt after the march?” one sixth-grader asked the man who had participated in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington in 1963. The Rev. James F. Reese, 91, talked with sixth-graders at Martel Elementary School by speakerphone after a Bates College-sponsored MLK Read-In at the school Wednesday. Reese’s […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. legacy misinterpreted, speaker says
Joseph was the keynote speaker at Bates’ MLK Jr. Day: “From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Nonviolent Dissent.” An author, national civil rights commentator and Tufts University history professor, Joseph introduced himself as a native New Yorker. Growing up, his mother was a trade union worker. “My first picket line was in New York […]
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Gov. LePage’s plan: How much nonprofits would pay
LEWISTON — If Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to tax nonprofits became law, Lewiston would get $3.3 million a year in added property taxes from its two hospitals and Bates College. Central Maine Medical Center’s property tax bill would be $1.17 million a year, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center’s would be $535,000, and Bates College would […]
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Bates College offering MLK events Sunday, Monday
LEWISTON — Peniel Joseph, author, historian and founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Boston’s Tufts University, will be the keynote speaker at Bates College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Joseph’s talk is titled “Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Obama and the Age […]
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Walsh joins Maine Initiatives
BRUNSWICK — Greg Field, president of the board of directors of Brunswick-based Maine Initiatives, announced that Philip Walsh will be joining Maine Initiatives as executive director on Monday, Feb. 2. Walsh was most recently the director of the Office for External Grants at Bates College in Lewiston. In the past, he also served with the […]
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Forum speaker to talk about election results and what they mean
LEWISTON — Results of the recent election and what they mean will be the topic at the Great Falls Forum at noon Friday, Nov. 21, in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Bates College Associate Professor of Politics John Baughman will speaking on “The 2014 Election: What did we Learn and What Can We […]