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Laura Ligouri, executive director of Mindbridge, bottom right, and Fatuma Hussein, executive director of the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, bottom, present a joint Lewiston-Auburn equity statement to the Lewiston City Council on Tuesday.
LEWISTON City officials in Lewiston and Auburn appeared largely supportive this week of a joint equity statement drafted by City Spirit L/A, a group of city, school and community leaders that formed to address conflict and inequity in the Twin Cities.
During separate workshop sessions Monday and Tuesday, both city councils got a first look at the statement, which has been in development since June.
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LEWISTON Joan Macri, the longtime mock trial and debate coach at Lewiston High School, had a feeling that Maine Center for Disease Control Director Dr. Nirav Shah had a background in public speaking and debate, so she asked him during a virtual Great Falls Forum discussion Thursday.
Katie Boss of Healthy Androscoggin, prepares to interview Dr. Nirav Shah in her Auburn home for a virtual installment of the Great Falls Forum. The topic “New Year’s Resolutions for Maine’s Health: COVID-19, Vaccines, Mental Health and Looking Ahead.” was aired on the Lewiston Public Library’s Facebook page.
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AUBURN A proposal to conduct all Auburn City Council meetings remotely due to Maine’s surge in COVID-19 cases was tabled indefinitely Monday night without discussion.
The order, proposed by Councilors Holly Lasagna and Katie Boss, would have returned the city to remote meetings for the first time since this spring.
With daily cases now greater than at any point when the council was previously conducting remote meetings, Lasagna said in a memorandum the council should return to remote meetings “to ensure the safety of our community and respect the lives of our families and neighbors and the livelihoods of our first responders and frontline workers.”