Auburn News

The School Committee has asked the City Council to approve a referendum in February to ask voters to approve a new high school, which could cost $62 million, with local property tax dollars.

City councilors are picking sides on the issue of whether Lewiston-Auburn rail service, if built, should go downtown or stop at the Auburn Lewiston Municipal Airport.

The so-called Omnibus Energy Bill, which incorporates ideas from at least nine separate bills, would encourage the expansion of natural-gas pipelines into New England, increase funding for energy-efficiency efforts and provide financial assistance to help low-income families switch to more affordable heating systems.

By the time Principal Donald Fournier was finished with his commencement speech Friday night at Saint Dominic Academy, even the most casual observer got a sense that he knew every single teenager in cap and gown.

Robert Rich, a Navy veteran and resident of Schooner Estates in Auburn, is reflected in some of the memorial stones at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston Friday morning during an impromptu ceremony after Saturday's parade was cancelled because of the weather forecast.

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Robin Allain, a 15-year-old freshman at Edward Little High School in Auburn, rides a bicycle trainer as art teacher Terri Wentzel and Maine Cycling Club President Noel Smith monitor Allain's power output during the Maine Youth Cycling Club Power Challenge at the school Wednesday.

A legislative committee is expected to vote Friday on an ambitious proposal aimed at lowering Maine's high electricity and heating costs.

Enough is enough. The following is a list of our local lawmakers that are holding up meaningful welfare reform.

Bob Levesque, an E-911 dispatcher for the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department, responds to a call inside the newly updated center in Auburn.

All six properties on the auction block Wednesday morning were good ones at one time, according to landlord Sean Watkins.

"I'm truly upset that you want to raise water rates by 20 percent," said Jacqueline Smith of Willow Circle.

Tony Leonard, left, and his attorney, Henry Griffin, listen to Assistant District Attorney Lisa Bogue during opening statements Monday in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn.

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But the opportunity to be director at the school's Harward Center for Community Partnerships was too good to pass up, so last summer she, her husband and their two children moved up from Mississippi.

The horrific downtown fires have once again put the spotlight on the housing situation in downtown Lewiston.

It was a sad day last January when Sears closed. The department store had been a local institution since 1935 and a Lewiston Mall staple since the late 1970s.

Forage Market co-owners Cody LaMontagne, center, and Allen Smith, right, visit with Jimmy Simones shortly after they were awarded a 2013 Lewiston Economic Achievement Award at the Lewiston Auburn Growth Council's annual awards dinner Thursday night at the Ramada in Lewiston.

"Everyone has their own prayer to offer," Sarah Shepley said as she hung prayer flags in Kennedy Park on Monday.

A 28-year-old woman was thrown from her car Monday morning after the car apparently hit an abutment and flipped over several times on Route 121 by the Sawyer Bridge.