LEWISTON — One final accreditation hurdle remains before Purdue University’s purchase of Kaplan University is complete. What that will mean for the future of Kaplan’s physical campus in Lewiston remains uncertain. “At this time, there have been no determinations made regarding the physical campuses,” Brian Zink, Purdue’s senior director of news and information, wrote in […]
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Couple happily married after week's whirlwind courtship
AUBURN — Steven Gershman and Sofe Silverman met, fell in love and decided to marry, all in one week. How would such a rushed courtship work out? Fabulously. “I’m still pinching myself,” said Sofe, who changed her last name to Gershman after their wedding. “It’s just so amazing and so wonderful.” The couple’s story was […]
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Weight-loss champ resolves to stay healthy
RUMFORD — When Theresa Arsenault saw a photo of herself from last December on her Facebook page, it made her appreciate how much work she did to reach her weight-loss goals and be healthy. Last April, she won the Biggest Loser weight-loss challenge held by the Greater Rumford Community Center, losing 23 percent of her […]
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Bill and his bots forging ahead
NORWAY — One of his robots got smashed and buried in a New Zealand mine and one got delayed by many months, but Bill Lovell and his bots are forging ahead in 2017. Through his company, c-Link Systems, Lovell has set out to design bots to work autonomously or give humans a hand: cleaning up […]
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Clown hysteria comes to Auburn
AUBURN — On the evening of Oct. 5, a Gamage Avenue woman had a showdown with a scary clown. She was sitting on her porch, the woman reported at the time, when a clown appeared in the back of an SUV that pulled up in front of her house. The clown smiled at her, made […]
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Newry meeting resistance in SAD 44 withdrawal
BETHEL — Since the vote to change School Administrative District 44’s cost-sharing formula failed in November, the Newry Withdrawal Committee is moving forward with the process, but not without resistance. Residents voted Nov. 8 not to change the district’s cost-sharing formula from 100 percent valuation to 90 percent valuation and 10 percent student enrollment for […]
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‘Believe in Steve’ Scott: ‘We’re still here, together’
LEWISTON — Last March, Steve Scott, 47, was in critical condition in intensive care, on life support, close to death. Before he got sick, he was strong, a mason for a bricklayers’ union in the Boston area. He suddenly came down with a severe pancreatic infection. “The cause, they’re not sure,” said his wife, Linda […]
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Jay teen to wait and see what the political future holds
JAY — Eighteen-year-old Trevor Doiron plans to wait and see what the future holds for him in politics. He hopes to attend Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to study political science for his undergraduate degree. Doiron was 17 and the youngest Democratic delegate of 30 from Maine and the youngest male at the National Democratic […]