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Good Shepherd hopes Shaw’s reinstates donations statewide

AUBURN — News that Shaw’s Supermarkets had reversed its decision to discontinue donations to a Brunswick-area food bank earlier this week had officials at the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn hopeful the grocer would reinstate donations statewide. When Shaw’s discontinued donations of perishable foods that were near their expiration dates in 2013, the impact […]

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Monique Marie Hamann

1971 – 2015 AUBURN — Monique Marie Hamann, 44, died Friday evening, Sept. 18, at 5:20 p.m. at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice in Auburn, after having cancer for two years. Monique was born Feb. 22, 1971, the daughter of Laurier Jean and Muriel (Caron) Hamann. In 1989, she graduated from […]

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Shaw’s, Hannaford recall store brand bottled water

PORTLAND — Shaw’s and Hannaford stores are recalling house brands of bottled water after E. coli bacteria was found in the water’s supply. The Portland Press Herald reports Shaw’s brand of bottled water and Hannaford’s Nature’s Place water are both bottled by Niagara Bottling Co. in Pennsylvania. The bacteria was detected at one of the […]

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Rowena ‘Red’ J. Wright

1924 – 2015 AUBURN — Rowena “Red” J. Wright, 91, of Sabattus passed away after a brief illness at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. She was born in Wilton on Feb. 14, 1924, the daughter of the late Gerry and Caroline (McLaughlin) Swett. She attended local schools and graduated from Wilton Academy in 1942. […]

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Shaw’s reports possible security breach at Maine stores

LEWISTON — Shaw’s supermarkets has posted a warning on its website that the company has recently discovered a security breach at a number of its stores, including some in Maine. The company does not yet know whether credit and debit card information was stolen, but said the breach appears to have occurred between June 22 […]

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EBT shoppers face computer errors at the register

Shoppers in Lewiston and across Maine and 16 other states were unable to use their food stamp debit cards for hours on Saturday, after a routine test of systems by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. In Lewiston, EBT shoppers at the Shaw’s Supermarket were unable to buy groceries for about 30 minutes, […]