LEWISTON — The Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council wants to continue to include Auburn in its future, but it’s making plans to move forward with only one of the Twin Cities involved. “Although it’s contrary to the Growth Council’s very design, it is my intent that a revised budget will allocate 100 percent of our focus […]
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Growth Council marketing plan for L-A includes trade show re-brand
LEWISTON — Marketing efforts designed to bring business to the Twin Cities will concentrate more on spreading the word directly and bringing more Maine businesses in for a visit. “A primary piece of business development marketing is meeting executives — and then meeting executives and meeting executives some more,” said John Holden, president of the […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Feb. 8 The Sun Journal is hosting a lunchtime live blog at noon on www.sunjournal.com with the Lewiston-Auburn Charter Commission and its consultants from CGR Consulting. The topic will be the effort to combine Lewiston and Auburn, and what the consultants learned from a meeting with city groups and staffers last week. LEWISTON — Lunchtime […]
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L-A This Week
MONDAY, Feb. 1 AUBURN — City Council workshop and regular meeting in the City Council Chamber on the second floor of Auburn Hall. The workshop is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. The regular meeting follows at 7 p.m. LEWISTON — School Committee regular meeting at Dingley Building, 6:45 p.m. On agenda: presentation by Longley […]
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L-A Fourth a fiery celebration at fairgrounds
Here’s a quick little trivia quiz. In what year was the first joint Lewiston-Auburn Fourth of July celebration held? It was 1948, and it was a big event with an intercity all-star baseball game in the morning at Walton Field in Auburn, and a fireworks display at the Maine State Fairgrounds in Lewiston. The display […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
MONDAY, June 29 LEWISTON — Lewiston Planning Board regular meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the administrators conference room on the bottom floor of Lewiston City Hall. AUBURN — Ribbon-cutting ceremony for refurbished city softball field, 5:30 p.m. at 48 Pettengill Park Road, Auburn. TUESDAY, June 30 LEWISTON — Lewiston City Council special meeting, 6 p.m. in the City […]
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For Lewiston-Auburn charter group, consultant could wrangle facts and figures
LEWISTON — When voters in Princeton Township and the Borough of Princeton, N.J., went to the polling places in 2013 to vote on combining their cities, they had a report full of facts and figures with them, a consultant said Wednesday. But that’s not all they brought. “The stuff we measured and quantified for them […]
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Lewiston-Auburn This Week
MONDAY, June 15 AUBURN — City Council workshop and regular meeting in the City Council Chamber on the second floor of Auburn Hall. The workshop begins at 5:30 p.m. and topics include the Lewiston Auburn Economic Growth Council and Great Falls TV. The regular meeting starts at 7 p.m. and topics include buses to Portland, funding for […]
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Lewiston-Auburn half marathon can’t compete with S. Portland Color Run
LEWISTON — A popular Lewiston-Auburn half-marathon will get bumped this year, postponed to 2016 by a bigger South Portland running event. Rachel Desgrosseilliers, executive director of Museum L-A, said organizers had started promoting the 2015 Bands on the Run Half Marathon & 5K, scheduled for June 28. “Last year, they had a big Color Run […]
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Resources fair meant to help L-A residents, social service providers
LEWISTON — A social services resource fair scheduled for downtown Lewiston is aimed at bringing providers together as much as it is getting those services out to the people who need help. “There are a lot of folks that are doing great work around the community to help people, but oftentimes even they don’t know […]