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  • 2 months ago | sunjournal.com | Christopher Wheelock

    LISBON — Women in Lisbon and Lisbon Falls no longer work as they once did by the hundreds at the Worumbo Mill in the early 20th century. Today, women entrepreneurs are moving toward a position of dominance in the business community and helping to reshape it. They’re opening everything from Maine’s first 100% woman-owned brewery to restaurants, a coffee shop, a specialty sausage shop, consignment store, an insurance agency and a pet hospice and palliative care practice.

  • 2 months ago | sunjournal.com | Christopher Wheelock

    Splittin’ Wood Axe Throwing — the popular venue for entertainment and the sport of ax throwing — has moved just around the corner at the Lewiston Mall and is back open. Nearly four years ago, Christopher Nichols opened the only such venue in Lewiston and Auburn at 20 East Ave., Unit 10. It is now ensconced inside a new space at Unit 36. It sits next to the former Sliders and just down from the Family Dollar store.

  • 2 months ago | sunjournal.com | Christopher Wheelock

    TURNER — The annual town meeting will be held Saturday, April 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Leavitt Area High School cafeteria, located at 21 Matthews Way. The proposed budget from the town’s budget committee is $4 million, and the proposed budget from the Board of Selectmen is $3.99 million. Last year’s approved budget was $3.8 million. Growth within the community has meant increased volume at the transfer station requiring changes to increase future capacity and traffic flow.

  • 2 months ago | centralmaine.com | Christopher Wheelock

    WALES — Voters in Wales, Sabattus and Litchfield will vote April 8 on whether to close Sabattus Primary School. After years of interim fixes and much debate and study, the Regional School Unit 4 directors voted unanimously Jan. 8 to close the school at 36 No Name Pond Road. Per state law, all three communities must vote against the closure for the school to remain open, but a single affirmative vote will lead to its closure.

  • 2 months ago | sunjournal.com | Christopher Wheelock

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