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Famous Fat Boy Drive-In set to open for season in Brunswick
It's an annual sign of spring in Maine: Fat Boy Drive-In is getting ready to open in Brunswick. Fat Boy is set to open on May 4. They say they will only be open on weekends at the start of the season from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., eventually opening six days a week.
Maine school districts struggle with rising costs of special education
LEWISTON (WGME) -- The price of getting special education students what they need keeps going up. It's costing some districts hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Superintendents say they're seeing more students who require special education. That, along with what happens when schools have to get them additional...
BQDC Investigation Finds No Evidence of Financial Mismanagement, APDA to be reinstated
In a letter sent to The Student on Apr. 23, Dean of the Faculty Malcolm Hill shared findings from his team’s ongoing investigation of the allegations of inequitable conduct and financial mismanagement against Director of Debate (DoD) Sammi Rippetoe. These allegations were made in an open letter published on...
Lewiston Ramada Inn condemnation order lifted after more than a week
LEWISTON, Maine (WMTW) - City officials in Lewiston say the condemnation order for the Ramada Inn was lifted on Monday. The order went into effect April 18, after the city’s Department of Planning and Code Enforcement say the owners missed a deadline to make some necessary repairs that constituted code violations.
Maine man’s body found in New Hampshire almost a year after his disappearance
STARK, N.H. (TCD) -- State police recently located the remains of a missing 34-year-old man after they arrested a suspect in connection with his death. According to a news release from Maine State Police, Alex Jackson’s family reported him missing on May 14, 2023, after they hadn’t heard from him since May 12, 2023. Family members reportedly said it was "atypical behavior for him."
Multiple Maine Game Wardens honored for heroic actions the night of the Lewiston shootings
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife held its annual awards ceremony on Friday. The awards included honoring several Wardens for heroic efforts on the night of the Lewiston shootings. Josh Smith, who works out of Gray, was named the 2023 Maine Game Warden of...
MSAD 75 introduces free service to prevent violence in schools
The local school district plans to roll out a new option for students and others to anonymously report potential threats at school before they escalate into violence. Maine School Administrative District 75 Superintendent of Schools Heidi O’Leary told the school board at its meeting on Thursday, April 25, that the district will introduce the service, known as the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System, to students, faculty and staff with a series of informational meetings and training sessions.
New visitation facility opening in Lewiston this week
LEWISTON, Maine — A new facility is opening Wednesday in Lewiston. It will offer monitored family visitation for families in Maine with children in state custody. The latest data shows there are more than 2,500 Maine children in DHHS custody, according to the state's child welfare dashboard. While in state custody, visitation appointments are one of the only ways for kids to maintain relationships with their parents and other family members.
Voilà, Lewiston’s New French-Inspired Restaurant, Bon Vivant
Ah, Français! The language of love! When the turreted Victorian building at 133 Lisbon Street was constructed in 1895, you’d have commonly heard it spoken outside, on the streets of downtown Lewiston, a few blocks from the tenement neighborhood known as Little Canada. These days, the building’s ground floor — formerly occupied by une petite boulangerie called Subway — is home to bon Vivant, one of the more welcoming and higher-executing restaurants to open in Maine last year.
Lewiston, Maine Reimagines its 19th-century Mill District as a Destination
In March, the federal government approved a set of appropriation bills with $426 million in infrastructure funding for the state of Maine, including $5 million for a pair of unique riverfront revitalization projects in the city of Lewiston. The funding includes $3.9 million for a pilot project to reimagine the city’s historic canal system as a community asset with adjacent park amenities, as well as $1.1 million to reconstruct Beech Street to improve access to the city’s waterfront park, Simard-Payne Park, and to an adjacent future museum.
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