AUBURN — In a unanimous vote, the Androscoggin County Commission approved a bid from Quirk Auto Group to purchase four vehicles for the Sheriff’s Office. The $105,826 bid includes three 2018 Ford Interceptor SUVs at $28,641 each and a 2018 Dodge Charger for $25,193, minus $5,290 for trade-in of four vehicles that had about 150,000 […]
Isaiah Lary
Three commissioners named to treasurer's hiring committee
AUBURN — In a 4-3 vote, three Androscoggin County commissioners voted last week to put themselves on the hiring committee for a new county treasurer. Commissioner Isaiah Lary of Wales nominated Commissioner Bonney Starbird of Auburn, Chairman Zachary Maher of Poland and himself to serve on the committee to select a replacement for Robert Poulin, […]
Two Republicans in the running for Register of Probate
AUBURN — Republicans in Androscoggin County will have a choice in the June primaries for Register of Probate. Leslie Dubois of Lewiston and Joanna Said of Livermore, both Republicans, are seeking a spot on the November ballot for the county position. The winner of June’s primary faces Democrat Ira Bittues of Lewiston in the fall. […]
K. Kuck: Endorse Netanyahu’s welcome
This is in response to Isaiah Lary’s letter to the editor (Feb. 22), “A welcome to Mr. Netanyahu.” Having lived as a child and teenager, for 12 years each, through two totalitarian and brutal regimes — Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism and the Stalinist communist regime in post-war East Germany — I was deeply moved and […]