All pandemic-era mask requirements and other restrictions became recommendations, including in school and child care settings, this month as Maine’s civil state of emergency came to an end.
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State indefinitely extends license suspension of Lewiston cremation business
The license suspensions are in place until a future public hearing when all complaints related to Affordable Cremation Solution and its owner, Kenneth Kincer, can be heard at the same time.
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Lewiston Planning Board approves hockey academy housing in cargo containers at The Colisée
The vote was 6-1, with two members objecting to work being done beforehand.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Bedside Table: Many perspectives on Maine in these books
“I have two books on my bedside table, and, no coincidence, both are about Maine. As a retired physician who spent my career on the West Coast I have returned back East and relocated from Portland (OR) to Portland (ME). Knowing little of the rich history of the District and then the State […]
Posted inLocal & State
How browntail moths became such a big problem here in Maine
Efforts to defeat the moth started within days of its discovery in 1897 but, so far, the Old World invader has managed to hang on in New England.
Posted inDo This
Franco-American Fiddlers Rendezvous coming Sunday to Lewiston’s Kennedy Park
Top Maine musicians will be gathering in August to present a feast of French-flavored music.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Bates College encourages staff to get COVID-19 vaccines but opts not to require them
Though its students must get inoculated before the fall semester, staff say employees can choose to go without as long as they wear masks and maintain distance.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Lewiston-Auburn, Varsity Maine
New film documents Lewiston High School’s first Black head coach, Ronnie Turner
Local filmmaker Zamzam Elmoge discusses her new film ‘Everything Earned’ and the two years she spent following Lewiston High School’s basketball coach.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
Lewiston drops property tax rate after largest valuation increase in more than a decade
Residents can thank the $100 million in value tied to the New England Clean Energy Connect project as cause for the increase.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
‘No one had any idea how bad this could be’: Local health care workers’ reflections on COVID-19
The Sun Journal spoke to six health care workers from Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center about the impacts that the 15-month-old pandemic has had on them.