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The Continental Mill along the Androscoggin River in Lewiston is seen in the aerial photo from 2019. Sun Journal file photo LEWISTON — The Historic Preservation Review Board on Thursday afternoon unanimously approved a Certificate of Appropriateness for a potential new development at the Continental Mill: Picker House Lofts. Szanton Monks Properties is behind the 72-unit mixed income housing project at 2 Cedar St. and has a purchase and sale agreement in place with Chinburg Properties for 76,500-square feet of the massive mill, according to board filings. “Our business model is to wait ...

Pingree, Golden unveil earmark requests for federal funding of 20 Maine projects Share Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden have unveiled their list of requests for Congressional earmarks, the member-requested federal funding initiatives that are returning to Congress after a decade-long ban. Under new rules designed to avoid corruption and abuse, each House member is allowed to request 10 earmarks to benefit nonprofits and governmental entities – but not private firms – in their districts. Members had to post their list of requests – only a fraction of which will be granted by the Ho...

Read Article Right after graduating high school and prior to becoming an architect, I went to work in the Mill No. 5, through the help of my father, who was a millwright employed at the Bates Mill facility. My position was a washing machine operator, washing the many bedspreads that were being made in Mill No. 5. The most popular was the Martha Washington iconic spread, which kept the washing unit very busy. The Martha Washington was the most popular spread for many years. And it still is — being woven in the facilities in, I believe, Winthrop. I have a Martha Washington presently on my be...

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 a production crew of 20 will be shooting scenes for their opera film “Black Lodge” at the Bates...

18 of 18 Bates Manufacturing workers inspect the quality of the fabrics for missed loops or errors in this vintage photo. Photo courtesy Museum L-A LEWISTON — About 100 years after it opened in 1850, Bates Manufacturing tried measuring its economic impact by paying workers with $2 bills one week and asking gas stations, groceries stores and doctors’ offices to report back. The bills popped up everywhere. Some 5,000 people worked three shifts in the long brick complex, George H. W. and Barbara Bush appeared in the company’s ads and it was taking home awards for honors like “best pant...