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Volunteers in Lisbon help place more than 1,000 flags on graves of veterans
LISBON (WGME) - Volunteers from several groups are making sure veterans are not forgotten this Memorial Day. The Lisbon American Legion, local girl scouts and others are placing flags on the graves of vets at Ferry Road Cemetery, as well as eight others around town. In total, there will be...
Man pleads guilty to 2020 murder in Lewiston
The man who shot another man to death in Lewiston in July 2020 pleaded guilty to murder on Friday. Mark Sinclair, who was 28 at the time, killed John Paquin, 20, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Paquin was found with gunshot wounds outside an apartment building on Howe Street. "He was always...
Maine Maritime Museum Has All the Bells and Whistles
Photos courtesy of Maine Maritime Museum and Dianne Ballon. For the last 30 years, Dianne Ballon has had a recurring dream about searching for musical instruments in a secondhand shop. Last year, when she was invited into the basement at Bath’s Maine Maritime Museum to peruse its collection of antique and vintage bells, whistles, horns, and other navigational instruments, she was amazed. “It was exactly like the dreams,” Ballon says. “That night, I thought about all the objects talking to each other like, ‘Who is she going to pick?’”
Second man charged with manslaughter in Turner crash that killed grandmother acquitted
AUBURN, Maine — A second driver charged with manslaughter in the death of a Fayette grandmother following a deadly crash in Turner in 2022 has been acquitted by a jury in Auburn. After deliberating for an hour and a half Tuesday, a jury in Androscoggin County Superior Court came...
Lewiston native uses hometown as inspiration for first novel: ‘The Toll Road North’
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Peggy DeBlois is the author of “The Toll Road North.”. DeBlois grew up in Lewiston in the late 60s and early 70s in a French-Catholic neighborhood. She says she is an avid reader but never saw French-Canadian families of her youth in any book. DeBlois says she needed to capture that time and place in some small way.
Music as Medicine: Lewiston artist battles psychosis, muscle palsy with ukulele
LEWISTON, Maine (WABI) - May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Maine Tracking Network reported almost 3 thousand Mainers were diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2023. Lyme Disease is spread through blacklegged tick bites. Per the CDC, undiagnosed Lyme disease can spread to and affect the joints, heart, and nervous system.
Chapman loses in Round of 16
Boothbay Region High School junior Laura Chapman, seeded 10th in state tennis singles, defeated Tessa Castrucci of Hampden Academy, 6-0, 6-0, in the Round of 32 at the State Singles Tournament in Lewiston on Friday, May 17, but lost in the Round of 16 to seventh seed Vittoria DeLiso of Thornton Academy, 3-6, 6-7 (0-7).
Lewiston voters reject school budget proposal in low-turnout election
LEWISTON (WGME) -- Voters in Lewiston rejected the latest school budget proposal in an election on Tuesday. Only 3.9 percent of Lewiston voters actually voted in the Lewiston school budget election, but Lewiston city officials say that was actually a high turnout for an election like this. "I thought the...
BRHS doubles teams lose in Round of 16
On Monday, May 20, the Boothbay Region High School first and second doubles teams lost in the state’s Round of 16 tournament at Bates College, Lewiston. Danny Menard and Cole Purvis (Thornton Academy) def. Andrew Fowlie and Neal Baldwin (Boothbay) 6 - 1, 6 - 1, and Chan Park and Yuta Sato (Thornton Academy) def. Cole Hyson and Harry Hinckley (Boothbay) 6 - 0, 6 - 0.
Fetch ME a Home: Baby bunny Persephone
PORTLAND, Maine — The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society has had an influx lately of smaller animals, with guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, and birds all looking for forever homes. This week we feature Persephone, who's about 2 months old. Persephone was part of a litter from a pregnant mother who...
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