May 25—LEWISTON — “Say their names,” keynote speaker Adria Horn told the crowd gathered Saturday for the L&A Veterans Council Memorial Day observance. Horn encouraged family, friends and fellow service members ahead of Monday’s holiday to remember those who lost their lives while serving this nation. During the warm spring morning, the Army Reserve lieutenant […]
May 15—The U.S. Mint plans to release a new dollar coin at noon Thursday honoring Lewiston High School graduate Dr. Bernard Lown, the inventor of the defibrillator and a Nobel Peace Prize honoree for his work with Physicians for Social Responsibility. The coin, which bears Lown’s image along with a defibrillator, is part of the […]
Apr. 18—The owners of a small-scale agricultural equipment manufacturer are in talks to expand at the Port of Lewiston. Located on Thain Road in the Lewiston Orchards, Agpro is in negotiations to lease 4 acres owned by the port in North Lewiston. The land is near the city of Lewiston’s garbage transfer station and Northwest […]
Mar. 25—LEWISTON — A small room at the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor — Maine MILL, for short — contains a heart-wrenching exhibit of Lewiston’s darkest day. On one pedestal sit four tiny white statues of hands forming the “I Love You” sign used by the deaf community, created in the aftermath of […]
Mar. 24—LEWISTON — Outside Calvary United Methodist Church on Sabattus Street a woman is crying. It’s not clear what she’s crying about, exactly. The state of her life, maybe. The addictions, personal failings and strokes of bad luck that got her to this point. Whatever brought her to tears, the woman is not alone in […]