Lisbon News

The sink hole near the corner of Lisbon and Cedar Street caused the major Lewiston road to be shut down during early afternoon traffic Friday.

The Androscoggin Land Trust's Androscoggin Greenway planning initiative in Lewiston-Auburn, seeking to connect parks and trails along the Androscoggin River to each other and downtown neighborhoods and business districts, has been selected as the site for Maine's first place-based Health Impact Assessment.

The Twin Cities will take their arguments to have regional emergency communications centered around their L-A 911 Dispatch Center to the Androscoggin County Budget Committee.

Jerry Der Boghosian, center, was up front and singing every song at the Memorial Day Ceremonies at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston Saturday morning.

A Sabattus mother and daughter were injured and two vehicles were heavily damaged in a head-on crash Friday afternoon at 304 Lisbon St.

Androscoggin County commissioners inched closer to ending the dispatching debate Wednesday, calling on the county's Budget Committee to meet within 15 days.

Thirty-five awards and fourteen scholarships were presented to deserving University of Maine at Fort Kent students at the senior class banquet and awards convocation on Friday, May 11 in the UMFK Sports Center.

Androscoggin County commissioners ended a decade of debate Wednesday, voting 2-1 to maintain the ability to answer emergency calls and dispatch help in a county-run communications center.

Selectmen on Monday directed Town Administrator Arlan Saunders to determine whether the town could contract for dispatch services with an agency other than Lewiston-Auburn 911 or the town of Lisbon.

One hundred sixty-nine students received degrees at the 130th commencement exercises at the University of Maine at Fort Kent this past weekend.

Lisbon police officer Jason St. Pierre said Ashton Cuffee, 21, of Lisbon was charged with operating without a license and Robert Hamilton, 34, of Lewiston was charged with being a habitual offender for driving after his license had been suspended.

Androscoggin County Sheriff Guy Desjardins choked up Wednesday as he asked leaders to close the decades-old county dispatch center.