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Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Central and Western Maine News

Auburn to host its first Lobster Festival after long deliberation on a 2021 April Fool’s joke that spread across New England.

The rates increase will help balance unpaid services and outside accounting will be better for the town in the long term, said town officials said.

L/A Arts reopened at 168 Lisbon St. Saturday after several months of planning, relocating and renovating. The new space, just down the road from its old one, is better equipped for gallery space, installations and performances, say several board directors.

People from all around came out Saturday to the second annual Winter Festival for winter fun in support of local nonprofits.

Homes, businesses, schools and government buildings were damaged from broken water pipes stemming from the arctic blast last weekend.

The Bates graduate is now a minister, as was his father and grandfather, working to better conditions in Chicago’s West Side.

Dog sledding, snowshoeing and good winter fun returned to Beaver Park in Lisbon on Saturday. On hiatus since the beginning of the pandemic, Winter Fest was a welcome retreat for families around the area.

‘I remember having a profound experience of the question of God. . . . It set me on a path of questioning faith, God, why is there something rather than nothing, why suffering and death?’

Stacey and Terry Stibbards moved to Lewiston late last spring shortly before Terry found out he had Stage 4 cancer. When they moved from Silicon Valley in California, they shed most of their possessions and have been focusing on helping Lewiston’s homeless on a face-to-face level.

Hundreds quickly turned into nearly 3,000 attendees at Festival Plaza for New Year’s Auburn. Food, beer, music, company and fireworks were among the highlights of the evening as partiers resolved to have fun ushering in 2023.