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The Auburn Community Concert Band, under the direction of Milt Simon, will kick off its annual summer series of weekly outdoor evening concerts at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, at Festival Plaza in downtown Auburn. The performance is the first of 9 concerts scheduled for the Main Street location. The weekly free concerts will […]

The Auburn Community Concert Band's annual summer concert series will kick off at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, at Festival Plaza in Auburn. The

The Auburn Community Concert Band’s annual summer concert series will kick off at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, at Festival Plaza in Auburn. The performance is the first of 8 free of weekly outdoor evening concerts scheduled, weather permitting. There will be no rain location this summer due to COVID-19 concerns. In the case […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Mrs. V. P. DeCoster has hatched 7,000 baby chicks this spring. Of this number she has kept 1,400. The others were sold for day-old chicks. For many years she has specialized in Barred Rocks. 50 Years Ago: 1972 (From a Journal photo) There are no more dull moments in prospect for […]

Read Article Several local residents, one an actual doctor, wheel a gurney down a hallway Saturday evening at the Bates Mill Complex in Lewiston during the filming of a movie. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal AUBURN — Beth Morrison, an Auburn native who started her theater career at the Community Little Theatre and worked her way to forming her own opera and music theater production company, is returning home to shoot scenes for a movie 10 years in the making. For the next 10 days, Morrison and...

Read Article Jim Wellehan The Maine Climate Council released its plan to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. It may sound like an ambitious plan, but one that Maine – and the world – will have a very damaged and difficult future without; a world that you would not want to inflict on your children and grandchildren. As both an individual and a business owner, I have worked to cut carbon emissions since the Copenhagen Conference in 2009, committing to cutting our carbon em...

“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...