Lisbon Falls News

A bid by Gov. Paul LePage to lift a 10-school cap on charter schools and route some taxpayer funding to religious schools failed Tuesday night in the Senate by a vote of 29-6.

On May 30th, and without fanfare, state government sent the residents of Lewiston, Auburn and several other cities a message: You should raise more money to support your schools.

Matthew Wilson, 8, of Lisbon Falls reaches up to touch the body of Bigfoot, a monster truck based in St. Louis, Mo., at Sullivan Tire and Auto Service on Lisbon Street in Lewiston on Friday.

The message on Governor LePage's new television flashed "No New Taxes." But according to some, balancing the state budget without tax increases is impossible.

A bill that would place a moratorium on the creation of virtual public charter schools in Maine passed through the Senate on Tuesday over objections that doing so would infringe on an already adequate approval process.

Maine's governor has proposed a bill that would help send children from low-income families in Maine to board at public charter schools and allow students to take public money to private, religious schools that line up with state standards.

LISBON FALLS Police are looking for a man they say wore a mask and brandished a knife during a robbery at a Lisbon Falls convenience store.

Steve grew up buying paperbacks for fifty cents from the wire spinner racks at his local drugstore in Lisbon Falls, Maine, the sort with sexy cover paintings and lurid cover copy and breathless storytelling that kept you glued to the page well past your bedtime.

Smoke stains can be seen above the first-floor window at 6 Second St. in Auburn on Tuesday morning.