From more student volunteers to special Halloween events, Bates has sought to emphasize ‘common ties’ to Lewiston and Auburn.
lewiston maine
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
University of Southern Maine community grieves a year after Oct. 25 mass shooting
Community came together to remember, grieve and honor the 18 lives that were lost in a mass shooting in Lewiston last year. One of the victims, Joshua Seal, was a faculty member at the University of Southern Maine’s American Sign Language program.
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston artists defend ‘mushies’ painting on electrical box after councilor claims it promotes drug use
The artist said the mushrooms depicted in the painting are part of her mushroom-rich diet due to an autoimmune disorder, and are not psychedelic mushrooms.
Posted inTimes Record
Midcoast Symphony Orchestra to open 35th season with weekend concerts
The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rohan Smith, will launch the company’s 35th season with a concert titled “Majestic Earth Movements” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Franco Center in Lewiston and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at the Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham. Both concerts begin with a Maine premiere […]
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, News
CMMC staff reflects on their response to the Oct. 25 shooting
Hospital staff came together to provide the most efficient care to those wounded in the shooting, staff say.
Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston woman admits to Social Security fraud
Prosecutors said Donna D. Desrosiers collected more than $90,000 she wasn’t entitled to.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Lewiston will mark 1 year since mass shooting with event Friday at The Colisee
Attendees are invited to bring small mementos and keepsakes to leave at the end of the event, all of which will be catalogued and preserved as part of the growing Maine MILL collection in connection with the shooting.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
Lighting up Lewiston a year after the darkness
With hope and love, survivors and residents search for ways to ‘take back’ a day that brought so much grief
Posted inLocal & State
4 key findings about Maine’s law to compel mental health treatment
We spent months talking to experts in mental health care about what happened in Lewiston and how to treat people who cannot or do not accept their mental illnesses.
Posted inLocal & State
A Maine law could have forced the Lewiston mass shooter into psychiatric treatment. Why wasn’t it used?
Like nearly every other state, Maine can compel those with serious mental illnesses to comply with outpatient treatment. But the law is rarely used. Some fear it threatens to return America to a dark era of institutionalization.