UScellular donates $112,600 in wireless hot spots and service to YWCA Central Maine’s After School Access Project

State panel backs creation of new rail trail between Auburn and Portland

Rail Use Advisory Council endorses a 26-mile path for bicycles and pedestrians along an unused rail corridor.

Bates College expects to pick a new president this spring

With Clayton Spencer stepping down in June, the college is scrambling to find her successor.

Photo: Single-file snow stroll

Mapping the history of New England’s once-booming textile industry

USM's Osher Map Library offers an exhibit on the Northeast's textile mills, including Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston, whose economic power for 100 years changed life in scores of cities and towns.

Area students make Plymouth State University president’s list

Bates College alumnus Marshall Hatch Jr. talks community, leadership

The Bates graduate is now a minister, as was his father and grandfather, working to better conditions in Chicago's West Side.

L-A This Week

Lewiston elementary school program rewards students’ kind deeds with books

Over the past few months, dozens of students at Geiger Elementary School have received books from the school's new vending machine as a reward for being kind to others.

Lewiston, Auburn’s ‘booming’ housing market takes center stage at annual real estate conference

One broker predicted that the growth in the residential market will usher in new office, retail and industrial development.