For the past six years, I have been privileged to be one of Androscoggin County’s three commissioners and to represent the entire city of Lewiston. Two years ago, the citizens of our county approved a charter that increased the number of commissioners from three to seven. I am running for re-election, but my new district […]
Elaine Makas
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They came. They studied. They stayed. Bursting the Bates bubble.
They’re leaders. Business owners. Volunteers. A look at some of the Bates College grads who decided to stay in L-A and the difference they have made. LEWISTON — Ben Chin was a newly minted Bates College freshman — an 18-year-old kid who’d grown up in Syracuse, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa. — when Lewiston’s mayor hinted […]
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Androscoggin County Courthouse gears up for added security
AUBURN — A new initiative that will drastically heighten security inside the Androscoggin County Courthouse began as a cleanup project. County Commissioner Elaine Makas, who heads the buildings safety committee, wanted to find some place to store a canvas-covered contraption that had been sitting idle in the courthouse’s main hall. “I was concerned that someone […]
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E. Makas: Has done a terrific job
Although I (along with many others) was saddened to hear last spring that Bob Connors was resigning from the Lewiston School Committee for health reasons, that sadness was tempered somewhat by the news that the City Council had appointed Zam Zam Mohamud to complete Connors’ term. Mohamud has done a terrific job in that capacity, […]