LEWISTON — Peter Geiger is famous for forecasting the weather a year in advance. This is not an easy man to fool. His colleagues managed it Thursday night, though, when they tempted him to go to the Green Ladle in Lewiston, where he was awarded for his longtime support of local schools and programs. Was […]
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New Beginnings reception for Bob Rowe to be held
LEWISTON — A community gathering to honor retiring Executive Director Bob Rowe will be held at the Ann Geiger Center for New Beginnings, 134 College St., Lewiston. New Beginnings moved to the refurbished, three-floor location last fall after a successful fundraising campaign that attracted help from many in the community, and a gift from Lewiston […]
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Better way to handle closings
A business has a right to cease operations because it is not profitable. Clearly, Dunkin’ Donuts and others have clocked Tim Horton’s in the U.S. and for very good reasons. I have to wonder how high up the corporate food chain do you go to find the individual who makes the decision to stop everything […]
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Peter Geiger’s the place to be — again — on Halloween
LEWISTON — Lewiston’s popular master of Halloween, the generous giver of giant candy bars, is outdoing himself again. “This Halloween, I am going big or I am going home,” Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers’ Almanac, said Monday. Actually, he’ll be at his Brentwood Avenue home Friday night, along with his troop of volunteers, to […]
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Peter Geiger of Lewiston named head of Maine education board
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Board of Education has elected a new chair and vice chair. Lewiston resident Peter Geiger will replace outgoing chair Nancy Perkins on the nine-member board. Geiger served on the state board from 1992-1997 and was chair when Learning Results became law. He is also the executive vice president of Geiger, […]
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This is how you celebrate Halloween
AUBURN — Residents are ready with candy. The staff is ready with a haunted house, complete with a monster under the bed and a graveyard scene. From 5 to 6:30 p.m., trick-or-treaters ages 4 to 10 are invited to show off their costumes, score some candy and get scared at Clover Health Care’s haunted house […]
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Geiger elected as vice chair of state board of education
LEWISTON — Peter Geiger of Lewiston has been elected vice chairman of the Maine State Board of Education. Nancy Perkins of Cornish, a retired educator and town selectman, has been elected chairwoman. She succeeds Steven Pound, who remains a board member. Perkins and Geiger were elected to one-year positions that began July 1 and are […]