Afghan citizens are being relocated to Maine after being evacuated from their home country following the Taliban takeover last month.
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Auburn officials denounce those who questioned naming bridge for John Jenkins
City leaders have been largely silent about call by nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group for Leroy Walker to resign following racially-charged comments about Jenkins’ skin color.
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Racist comments from Auburn city councilor tarnish agreement to name footbridge after John Jenkins
Leroy Walker said that alleged looting by “dark-colored people” in the South reflects badly on John Jenkins, former mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn who died last year.
Posted inMaine, News
Neighbors complain about off-campus rowdiness at Bates College
Parties around the college campus reportedly causing an array of damage and rattling the nerves of the people who live there.
Posted inMaine, News
Lewiston cremation service owner issues apology to families
An attorney says Affordable Cremation Solutions owner Ken Kincer man was in the grips of substance abuse.
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A Bates College senior from Kabul helps save her family from the Taliban
Two sisters in America found Americans in Afghanistan to evacuate their parents and younger siblings.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools and Education
Lewiston school board approves mandatory masking
The committee also voted unanimously to adopt pooled testing of students and teachers.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Her husband died in 2020 after contracting COVID-19 at a nursing home — now Jodi Floyd says the staff vaccine mandate is the way to go
Jodi Floyd’s husband of 39 years, Marvin Floyd, died last November from complications due to COVID. She says the mandated vaccines should be accepted as medical best practice. Not everyone agrees with her.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Maine celebrates long-anticipated bicentennial parade
After it was rescheduled twice due to the pandemic, Maine’s bicentennial parade was just the right kind of quirky fun.
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Distressed families sue Lewiston cremation firm accused of mishandling remains
A half dozen Mainers filed suit Friday against Affordable Cremation Solution, a business shut down in June by state regulators who say they found unrefrigerated bodies stacked in its basement.