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Read Article Baxter Brewing Co. employees work on the canning line last week at the Lewiston brewery, which has nearly doubled in size over the past decade. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal LEWISTON — The little craft brewery that started with eight employees, two beers and ambitious plans in a former cotton cleaning mill turned out its first can 10 years ago this week. When Luke Livingston opened Baxter Brewing Co.’s doors as Maine’s 16th licensed brewery, it marked an early entry into wha...

Read Article Lewiston residents Barbara Alberda and her daughter Amanda, a senior at Boston College, high-five in front of the “Hopeful” sign displayed on the Main Street side of Bates Mill No. 5 in Lewiston. Their video was shown Wednesday evening during the nationally televised “Celebrating America” as part of the inauguration of President Joe Biden. LEWISTON — Near the end of the 90-minute inauguration special Wednesday, a brief clip of two women in front of the the city’s “H...

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The piece will be one of only six in the country commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment. A site for the installation has not been chosen.

Read Article LEWISTON — A mural honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment will be created in Lewiston-Auburn, making the Twin Cities one of only six sites in the nation to be selected by the federal program. The location of the mural will be selected from several proposed sites in both cities based on artist proposals. In October 2020, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts announced a partnership to honor the women’s suffrage moveme...

“Everybody wants it to be gone,” Poliquin said. “Everybody wants to forget about it.” True. And yet, while nearly everyone feels sadness at what’s been lost, especially the death of more than 330,000 Americans from COVID-19 since March, some also look back on these strange, lonely months and see glimmers of something valuable, even comforting. “A warm aura of strength continued to preside” even during this “year of turbulence,” said Fowsia Musse, executive director of Maine Co...