In 2011, the Auburn Police Department moved from One Minot Avenue into the newly remodeled Auburn Hall. The new space is located on the ground and third floors. The patrol officers, court officers and watch commander are on the ground floor where the public can come in and pay fines, look up records and access […]
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Sights Unseen: The Auburn Police Department
In 2011, the Auburn Police Department moved from One Minot Avenue into the newly remodeled Auburn Hall. The new space is located on the ground and third floors. The patrol officers, court officers and watch commander are on the ground floor where the public can come in and pay fines, look up records and access […]
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Sights unseen: The art and art of home renovation
Every time Susan Broadbent has moved into a new home, she has decorated it in a different theme or style. She has been doing this since she was 17 and has never repeated her interior decor. After she married Richard Dahlquist, an Edward Little High School art teacher, 11 years ago, she has continued her […]
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Sights unseen: Arbor House — a local ‘home’ for patients’ families
“Every time LifeFlight flies over, there is a family behind it,” said Jeri Maurer, director of Guest Relations at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Maurer was talking about the fact that the victim of any crisis handled by LifeFlight usually has a family, and that family is generally from out of town and needs […]
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Sights Unseen: Behind the can-do philosophy at Baxter Brewing Co.
Coming up on its third anniversary in January, Lewiston’s Baxter Brewing Co. is hopping. For 2014, three more 240-barrel fermenters are being added to the the exterior of the 130 Mill St. facility, and production of brewed beer will more than double, going from 12,000 to 25,000 barrels of beer a year. “We will have […]
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Inside the historic Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial Building in Greene
John Marshall Sawyer was born in a Greene farmhouse in 1874. One of six children, he quit school at 16 to start working in Portland. Soon after, he moved west and landed in Montana, where he was a sheep rancher and started an empire of 28 dry goods stores. With his fortune, Sawyer moved back […]
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Sights Unseen: MPBN’s Litchfield transmitting station
The squat brick building on top of a tree-covered hill in Litchfield doesn’t give any hint of the complex transfers happening inside. Seven microwave radio transmitters and receivers inside the Roland A. Desjardins Technical Center gather a microwave signal — generally originating in either Portland or Bangor — and relay it to other tower sites […]