AUBURN — The 10th-anniversary screening of a film based on a poem by renowned Lewiston painter Marsden Hartley will kick off the second annual Emerge Film Festival. The festival will be held over four days on April 9-12 at various venues in Lewiston and Auburn. Less than 20 percent of the more than 200 submissions […]
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2014: A year of tragedies, triumphs and tribulations
At first glance, 2014 looks like a year of staying the course — of familiar faces and the unchanging Maine way of life. We elected a new governor who wasn’t new to us at all. We voted against a referendum that would have changed the way sportsmen hunt bears in the Maine woods. A popular […]
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Great Falls Balloon Festival grounded Friday night, but there’s plenty to eat
“It’s the lime rickeys,” said Dan St. Pierre, commander of the William Rogers Post for American Legion Post 153 — which, coincidentally, is the only group selling lime rickeys at the festival. “We get people that come up here from Portland, not to see the balloons,” he said. “They come up, buy two at a […]
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Man found dead in Vassalboro identified, police say death is suspicious
VASSALBORO — Maine State Police and the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office have identified the man who was found dead Friday morning on property adjacent to the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. Investigators consider the death suspicious, according to Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Stephen McCausland. The body of Thomas Namer, 69, of Waterville was found […]
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Auburn continues review of Growth Council contract
AUBURN — Councilors on Monday said they wanted to pick and choose which parts of a proposed Twin Cities economic development contract they wanted to fund. “It seems to me that we are the stewards of taxpayers’ money,” Councilor Joshua Shea said. “It’s about getting the best bang for our dollar, not about seeing what […]