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🌱 How a $300K grant could reshape Lewiston’s only 24/7 warming center

Lewiston, Maine Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How a $300K grant could reshape Lewiston’s only 24/7 warming center
  • Crash victim from New Gloucester remains critical after transfer from Lewiston hospital.
  • How will Jonathan Bush’s new ad blitz target Lewiston voters?

Also on today's calendar: Lewiston's Farmers Market and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and not as warm, with a high of 67 and low of 37 degrees.
  • Sunday: Clouds and sun, temps: high: 64, low: 48.
  • Monday: A shower; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 66 and low of 40 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Lewiston's Alter L/A warming center prepares for winter, gets $300K grant (sunjournal.com) — Lewiston’s 24/7 Alter L/A warming center on Horton Street just received more than $300,000 from MaineHousing to boost staffing and prepare for winter. Leaders are racing to add showers and a sprinkler system so they can open as the city’s only low-barrier, 24-hour homeless shelter by mid-November, expanding support for hundreds of vulnerable residents.
   

2. New Gloucester man in critical condition after striking tractor trailer in Auburn (pressherald.com) — A serious crash in Auburn sent a 29-year-old New Gloucester man to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with life-threatening injuries after police say he ran a red light and struck a turning tractor trailer. He has since been transferred to Maine Medical Center in Portland, while Auburn police and state commercial vehicle specialists continue investigating the collision.
   

3. Third place Republican primary finisher to continue to invest in "common sense" candidates (wmtw.com) — Lewiston is one of three Maine cities where former gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush plans to fund television ads and other materials backing what he calls “common sense candidates.” His six-figure, cross-party effort focuses on local accountability and voter education, and could shape how Lewiston residents encounter campaign messaging ahead of future statewide races.
   

4. Four Black Women Selected for New Faculty Roles (jbhe.com) — Lewiston residents may soon see a new face on the Bates College campus: historian Camille Borders, who specializes in Black feminist thought and U.S. women’s history. Her arrival is highlighted alongside another scholar’s appointment, underscoring growing academic focus on Black women’s intellectual and social contributions nationwide.
   

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💬 Chatter

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  • There is an emergency vehicle on Pinkham Brook Rd...
    There is an emergency vehicle on Pinkham Brook Rd reported at 4:30 PM. "Tow Truck on Roadside" (Nextdoor )
  • Circle K posted a job opening for Team Member in Lewiston. Apply here.
  • Flowers Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Production Superintendent in Lewiston. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Lewiston here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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