On Oct. 25, 2024, exactly one year after Lewiston was struck by a historic mass shooting, community members gathered in the Colisée to honor the memory of those killed and the resilience of the city since.
Tom...
Carly Philpott, Managing News Editor
• December 14, 2023
The Harward Center hosted the Lewiston Teach-In to Prevent Gun Violence on Dec. 5 to bring together policy experts and community members after Maine's worst mass shooting as some residents hoped to turn grief into action.
How does a curling enthusiast contribute to the healing of a community after a traumatic event? David Florig, author of "The Stones of Ailsa Craig," remembers driving his car on a late November day wondering...
Trinity Poon, Assistant News Editor
• November 15, 2023
In the wake of the Lewiston shooting, there has been a surge of student participation in community engagement in forms as diverse as coordinating gift drives for healthcare workers to organizing a 5k to fundraise for victims.
Carly Philpott, Managing News Editor
• November 15, 2023
Pulling his gray pickup truck into the parking lot of Just-In-Time Recreation, Dan Beazley offers smiles to curious onlookers at the curb. He unloads a tall wooden cross from his truck bed and wheels it...
Zoe Schaedle, Managing News Editor
• November 15, 2023
On Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023, from approximately 5:30-7:00 p.m., Alumni Walk bustled with Buzz Lightyears, Spidermen, princesses and witches. What had been a ghost town only a few days prior, due to the mass...
On Oct. 25, 2023, a shooter took the lives of 18 Lewiston residents. It’s been three weeks since this tragedy occurred, and many members of the community have already stepped up to help in multitudes...
Lena LaPierre, Assistant Forum Editor
• November 15, 2023
On Nov. 3, President Biden’s visit to Lewiston commanded the attention of the Bates campus. With the community and the nation glued to the President’s televised remarks, however, an important voice...
Carly Philpott, Managing News Editor
• November 15, 2023
Thursday at around 4:00 a.m., I woke up shivering and disoriented. The stacks of Ladd Library were strikingly dark. And cold. I had joked with a friend of mine last week about pulling 24 hours in Ladd,...
At approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, President Joe Biden paid his second visit to the Lewiston-Auburn area of 2023, this time to mourn the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history. Biden...
Robert Card is dead.
Card was the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a restaurant in downtown Lewiston on Wednesday. According to the New York Times, Card’s...
Bates College lifted its campus-wide lockdown early Friday evening.
The announcement ended 46 hours of movement restrictions, shuttered doors and locked buildings on campus, which were part of a larger...
