Three months after a crushing stroke, Louis Morin is rising again. The 48-year-old former executive director of the Franco Center is walking and talking. He’s preparing to move back home to Freeport in a week or so. And soon, he’ll be driving again. “This could have been much, much worse,” Morin said this week in […]
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Franco Center searching for new director
LEWISTON — The Franco Center soon will begin looking for a new executive director to replace Louis Morin, who last month suffered a catastrophic stroke. The center’s board of directors has voted to begin placing ads and notices for the job as early as this week, board President Ray Lagueux said Tuesday. The decision was […]
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Franco Center in for Lewiston inauguration
LEWISTON — The city will still hold the inauguration ceremony for its elected officials at the Franco Center, but it will be a much less flowery affair. The city will do away with special flowered boutonnieres and corsages for the swearing-in ceremony. “I agree we are in tough fiscal times, but I think it’s an […]
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Louis Morin and Lewiston’s Franco Center: A year later, still a ‘pretty good gig’
LEWISTON — “The Broadway Dolls” are New York City regulars. They played a 20-date tour in China last fall. In two weeks, they head to Alaska. Saturday, they were all about the Franco-American Heritage Center, scheduled to sparkle, slink, tap and dance across the stage at the Lewiston center’s fundraising gala, the first time the […]
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Midcoast Symphony Orchestra readies daring show for Franco Center
Sometimes, it takes moving heaven and Earth to make something happen. For the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, the effort comes just short of a miracle but is certainly a titanic amount. The orchestra’s concert series opener this weekend will ignite with Mozart’s Jupiter symphony and then launch into another world with Mahler’s Titan symphony. To perform […]