Articles by Lindsay Tice
Lewiston heart center saves lives, earns praise from former opponents
LEWISTON, Maine — More than a decade ago, Rich Livingston went to Augusta to urge the state to approve a controversial heart center in Lewiston. Maine had only two such centers, which meant Lewiston-Auburn-area patients typically had to travel nearly an hour to Portland or two hours to Bangor if ...
Family of Gov. LePage said to have been displaced by earlier Lewiston fire
LEWISTON — The governor’s brother is believed to be one of the residents who escaped Monday’s fire at 172 Bates St. Adriana Garcia, who managed the building and has lived there for the past eight years, said she alerted Richard LePage and his wife, Alicia, to the fire and helped ...
Watchdog group to investigate Maine Center for Disease Control, DHHS after accusations made
Weeks after a Maine Center for Disease Control director accused her bosses of, among other things, giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding to favored organizations and harassing her when she refused to destroy documents related to that funding, a watchdog group will investigate. The Legislature’s Government Oversight ...
Auburn furniture maker’s work chosen for Bush library
By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal on April 26, 2013, at 5:38 a.m.
AUBURN, Maine — For years, Aaron Moser wanted to see his family’s furniture decorate a presidential library. He’d come close. Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers did some work for the Ronald Reagan library in California, though it wasn’t big — mostly public benches, public seating and occasional furniture. The Auburn company hand-crafted ...
Maine CDC workers claim harassment, threats
Sun Journal interviews with a handful of current and former workers from the Maine Center for Disease Control echoed allegations of harassment, threats and poor management filed in a complaint a little over two weeks ago by a current CDC director. Employees paint a picture of an ineffectual leader who ...
Maine CDC director to return to work after discrimination complaint
Sharon Leahy-Lind, the Maine Center for Disease Control director who filed a complaint of discrimination with the Maine Human Rights Commission, will return to work Monday. The CDC placed her on administrative leave a few weeks ago while it investigated allegations that she shared inappropriate and-or untruthful information, including confidential ...
Sportsmen angry about background-check video
A public service announcement featuring the former executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine has upset some alliance members who believe the video insinuates that SAM wants more background checks on gun purchases. “I have for a couple of days been receiving calls from very angry members, and emails, ...
Animal Tales: Vet on the go in Lewiston area
POLAND, Maine — When Teresa Blanchard brought her 14-year-old cat, Moochie, to his vet appointment last week, she didn’t think to bring along his medication. But a new blood test showed Moochie’s thyroid level was a lot lower than it should have been and Dr. Michelle Maloney wanted to verify ...
Lawmakers hold off investigation of claims Maine Center for Disease Control shredded funding records
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Attorney General’s Office is reviewing a claim that Maine Center for Disease Control officials ordered the shredding of public funding records, according to the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee. Committee members were told about the review Friday morning. Because of that, members decided not to ask ...
Lawmakers want investigation after state worker claims she was assaulted for refusing to shred documents
CDC director claims she had documents showing scoring for a state program was manipulated.
Maine CDC official alleges she was assaulted after refusing to destroy public documents
A Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention director has sent a complaint of discrimination to the Maine Human Rights Commission alleging, among other things, that her bosses ordered her to shred public records to prevent the Sun Journal and the public from seeing them — and assaulted and harassed ...
Auburn couple avoids injury but looking for new home after neighbor fires gun into apartment
AUBURN, Maine — A local couple was unhurt — but looking for a new apartment — after a stray bullet struck their Elm Street apartment building, went through the bathroom wall and landed in their bathtub. Christopher Roy and his girlfriend, Katelyn Hanscom, were asleep in the bedroom next to ...
Sumner man, Renaissance re-enactor, arrested in road dispute after allegedly threatening with medieval-style ax
SUMNER, Maine — Just days after a Sun Journal story about the war over Abbott Pond Road, a man on one side was charged Wednesday with threatening someone on the other side with an ax. Benjamin Stewart, 26, the son of Nicole Lutz, was charged with criminal threatening with a ...
Sumner neighbors war over access to road; ‘people like their land more than their spouses’
SUMNER, Maine — In rural Sumner, there’s an old dirt road that winds past a few homes, up a hill and through the woods. It’s not pretty, not vehicle-friendly, and is barely passable half the year. Its single saving grace: It connects the area to Redding Road, a paved street ...
Auburn considers expanding school iPad program
AUBURN, Maine — Teachers and school technology leaders told School Committee members Wednesday that the city’s iPad initiative has been a rousing success and they urged the committee to keep the technology coming. But some committee members questioned the cost. Every Auburn kindergartner received an Apple iPad last year and ...
State investigates Auburn medical marijuana cultivation facility
AUBURN, Maine — The state is continuing its investigation of a medical marijuana cultivation operation in Auburn. The facility is owned by Wellness Connection of Maine and is at 33 Omni Circle, near the Lewiston-Auburn Municipal Airport. Wellness Connection owns four of the eight medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine, making ...
Two companies slam competing liquor contract bill
Two of the three confirmed potential bidders for the state’s liquor contract say the latest proposal gives an unfair advantage to the current contract holder and could cost the state millions in lost revenue. The proposal comes in the form of LD 644, a bill submitted last week by state ...
Lewiston-Auburn developer, Maine Red Claws co-owner, dies at 64
Stephen Griswold, a prominent Lewiston-Auburn developer who rehabilitated affordable housing in L-A, co-owned the Maine Red Claws and was working to revitalize Thompson’s Point in Portland, has died. Griswold, 64, died Sunday. His brother and business partner, Lee Griswold, said Stephen had been sick but declined to say more because ...
As Medicare looks to penalize hospitals for readmissions, some Maine hospitals could be in trouble
LEWISTON — Medicare patients discharged from most area hospitals were slightly more likely than others in Maine or across the nation to end up back in the hospital within 30 days, according to a new report. The one local hospital below the state and national average: St. Mary’s Regional Medical ...
Former Lewiston doctor was on double arm transplant team
A plastic surgeon who practiced in Lewiston for 14 years was one of the 16 surgeons involved in the recent double-arm transplant for an Iraq vet. Steven Bonawitz was part of the 13-hour surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, helping to provide new arms to Brendan M. Marrocco, a ...
Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
Orono man charged with murder in death of Glenburn teen
LePage hopes to eliminate income tax by end of second term
Family remembers Nichole “CoCo” Cable, warns of social media dangers
Nichole Cable: In our minds, hearts
Obama’s boyfriend line
Ignore LePage politics, get to root of DHHS funding needs
Basketball season never ends for Worcesters of Washburn, a family of 1,000-point scorers
UMaine narrows candidate list, hopes to name men’s hockey coach next week
Eastport teen notches first ‘Bandolero’ racing victory
Former Dexter, Nokomis coach Pratt takes Mount View football post
Houlton makes plans for new hockey boards at Millar Civic Center
Fun, informative or just plain strange: 8 museums in Maine worth a road trip
Not even chemotherapy could quell Maine woman’s longing to be in the kitchen
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74
Microsoft unveils new Xbox One game console