Auburn News

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.

In Georgia, restaurants have to post health inspection reports next to their front doors, and in St.

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.

"Monumental" is the term auctioneer Jody McMorrow uses as he walks through the massive display of tools, collectibles, classic cars and racing memorabilia at Bob Greeley's home.

Matt Haines pours water onto 116 Pierce St. to keep dust and debris down as his boss, Roland Chabot, from Roland's Demolition of Auburn, tears down one of several buildings destroyed in the May 3 fire.

The Twin Cities will honor businesses big and small and hear from Cianbro President Peter Vigue at the 32nd annual Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council annual dinner Thursday, May 16.

According to Sgt. Laurie Woodhead of the Auburn Police Department, Catherine Bauer of Auburn and passenger Luke Merriam, 29, of Auburn, were traveling on Pownal Road at 5:53 a.m. in a Ford Focus when Catherine, who was driving, lost control of the vehicle.

Kaylee Bouchard, 9, helps Myles Poulin, 2, across the monkey bars at Bonney Park in Auburn as his mother, Mackenzie Pride, right, takes a photo of Myles and his brother, Elliot, 4, left, on Mother's Day Sunday.

14, 1989, flames ripped through half-a-block of buildings on Walnut Street between Bartlett and Horton streets.

Tim Stretton, a 2009 Lewiston High School graduate, graduated from the University of Southern Maine yesterday, May 11.

At the turn of the century, Rumford was a hub for western Maine. The mill, which opened in the late 1890s, attracted workers - citizens and immigrants alike - to the town on the Androscoggin River.

Starting in a repair shop behind a Mill Street gasoline station just after lunchtime on May 15, 1933, it spread rapidly through the tenements and shops, with cinders blowing from rooftop to wood-shingled rooftop.

More than a decade ago, Rich Livingston went to Augusta to urge the state to approve a controversial heart center in Lewiston.

To donate, go to volunteermaine.org and click on the link for the Lewiston Fire Relief Fund .

Dan Bilodeau of Auburn returns a shot while playing volleyball at the new Lake Auburn Community Property court on the North Auburn Road on Friday.