With vaccine mandates for students in place, Bates College eyes a return to near normal in the fall

Vaccinated students will no longer need masks and won't have to stay 6 feet apart anymore as most COVID-19 restrictions are dropped at the Lewiston campus.

The Stanton Bird Club invites artists to participate in a plein air painting session

At the 1924 Olympics, Maine’s Bob LeGendre leaped into history

For several years in the 1920s, Americans hailed LeGendre, a world-record holder and Olympic medalist, as the best athlete in the country and possibly the world.

Western wildfire smoke hanging over central Maine

The air quality was deemed unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Lewiston’s Rancourt & Co. hand-sews 2021 Olympic sneakers for opening, closing ceremonies

"We're making sneakers for people who are going to be on the world stage." — President Mike Rancourt.

Storyteller to weave Tales of Tails from around the world as part of series

Lewiston Public Library

Museum L-A waives admission fee during Riverfest July 24

The risks of COVID-19 to children under 12 remain low, even as vaccine awaits approval

All pandemic-era mask requirements and other restrictions became recommendations, including in school and child care settings, this month as Maine's civil state of emergency came to an end.

State indefinitely extends license suspension of Lewiston cremation business

The license suspensions are in place until a future public hearing when all complaints related to Affordable Cremation Solution and its owner, Kenneth Kincer, can be heard at the same time.

How browntail moths became such a big problem here in Maine

Efforts to defeat the moth started within days of its discovery in 1897 but, so far, the Old World invader has managed to hang on in New England.