More than a million vehicles traveled on the Maine Turnpike from Friday to Monday. Could it be a good omen for the rest of the summer season?
Memorial Day
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Meet the Mechanic Falls native who led the last bayonet charge in U.S. Army history
Lewis Millett was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Feb. 7, 1951, in the Korean War.
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Rain expected to dampen Memorial Day traffic in Maine
Despite predicted stormy weather and lower traffic volumes, Friday will still be the busiest travel day on the Maine Turnpike over the holiday weekend.
Posted inFood
For better burgers, up your bun game with these Maine-made rolls
Local bakers put out some of the best burger buns you can buy. Here’s the lowdown on seven of them.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Remember last year’s Memorial Day travel jams? Chances are they will be much worse this year
Highways and airports are likely to be jammed in the coming days as Americans head out on, and then home from, Memorial Day weekend getaways.
Posted inMaine, News
Remembering veterans who died in World War II by telling their stories
The goal of Stories Behind the Stars is to organize a centralized digital location to collect the stories of the more than 421,000 Americans killed in World War II.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Officials hushed up sinking of WWII ship with Lewiston serviceman aboard
Ronaldo Anctil and more than 1,000 other Americans died when the HMT Rohna was struck by Germany’s new radio-guided missile, and the attack was classified to protect morale.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
A Lewiston Evening Journal editorial for Memorial Day, 1870
If there ought to be one day in the year so sacred, so uncontaminated by every current interest and influence as to be peculiar while we cherish and observe it, it is that on which the relatives and friends and a grateful community of people go out to lay offerings of flowers upon the graves […]
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First Memorial Day in Lewiston and Auburn filled with flowers and flags
The community turned out in big numbers in 1870 to honor the heroic dead who fought for the Union in the Civil War