AUBURN — Karen and John Bolduc have an idea for a culinary-focused, high-end treehouse glampground on 100 acres, with spiral stairs snaking around the tree and a treehouse chicken coop with eggs that roll right into the high-rise kitchen window. Now, where to put it. After looking privately for months with limited luck, the Auburn […]
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How a Bates College professor from Turner helped forge Edmund Muskie's political career
LEWISTON — Sometimes a life hinges on whether someone finds what they need at the moment they need it. A Bates College professor played that role for one of America’s leading politicians during the Cold War, former U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, a lanky young man from Rumford who walked into Brooks Quimby’s classroom […]
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Jay murder trial: Autopsy revealed numerous injuries
Sweeney’s co-counsel, Thomas J. Carey, said Thursday that Sweeney suffers from delusional jealously that Douglass was cheating on him. Carey said this jealousy was only getting worse.
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Eric Brakey launches Free Maine Campaign to fight ‘nanny state’
Brakey, 30, said the new organization aims “to protect the freedoms and paychecks of Maine people” with a grass-roots effort to help Mainers “get active and involved” with public policy decisions that impact their lives.
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Strong selectmen approve employee raises
Selectman Rodney Cook suggested a combined percentage and merit-based pay increase would be more equitable. However, because selectmen do not evaluate the municipal staff, the option would have to be revisited for next year’s budget.
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Auburn home surveillance videos show cars running stop sign — including one that hit her house
Based on Gail Shelley, the homeowner’s surveillance videos, most crashes occur from one direction: Vehicles coming down Park Street, headed toward Walmart, often do not see the stop sign, she said.
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Side By Each Brewing, Poutine Factory nearly ready to serve in Auburn
In July, brewery partners Ben Low and Matt Johannes received the first commercial loan from the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council since LAEGC moved into the Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
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The case of the missing turkey still cold
Cherie Garnett, who works for the town’s Parks and Recreation Department said the bird was nowhere to be found by town workers when they retrieved the display items last fall for the town’s annual Thanksgiving tableau at the Route 196 and School Street.
Posted inLocal & State, Outdoors
People You Know: Chris Silsbee takes over Bradbury Mountain State Park
On Jan. 1, he’ll lead his second First Day Hike as the park manager. It’s a part of a national park program to get people out and active.
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Canton accident victim ID’d
Officials say Corey Edingbourgh, 36, of Mexico was seriously injured in the Canton Point Road accident that took the lives of Shawn Hodge, 38, of Rumford, and Sarah Bosworth, 26, of Mexico.