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Abby Dunn, a sophomore at EL, won the girls' racewalk gold medal Sunday at the National Indoor High School Track Championships.

AUBURN a ' It's taken nearly three years, but an effort to rewrite the city's core planning document is nearing the end.

That's the pitch behind next month's display of a 20-foot-long, 8-foot-tall replica of a human colon, dubbed the "Super Colon." On April 15, the creation will be inflated inside the Auburn Mall, complete with a walkway, paid staff and pink polyps the size of basketballs.

Some area golf courses have seen less than a half a foot of snow in nearly two months, and, buoyed by a forecast for more of the same, along with some frost-busting rain and warmer temperatures on tap for this weekend, golfers with an itch to pick up the sticks and play a round will have that chance as early as Thursday.

In this photo taken Wednesday March 3, 2010 a firefighter looks over the scene where a sport utility vehicle crashed through a fence and into an unoccupied office building near the roundabout on Turner Street in Auburn, Maine.

A troublesome crown in the roadway of the main route through the city, and a 14-foot-tall lizard, go to the City Council for consideration on Monday.

Auburn police arrested a motorist on Danville Corner Road in Auburn Friday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash.

Generations of schoolchildren - nerdy ones, shy ones, fat ones and ones who were simply different - are all too familiar with the gut-wrenching fear that a trip to a school bathroom or locker room can invoke.

Dave Colson, foreground, an organic farmer of the New Leaf Farm in Durham, responds to a question from the audience about genetically modified seed after the screening of the documentary "Food Inc." at the Flag Ship Cinema in Auburn on Tuesday.

LEWISTON a ' Three plans for changing radio communication with police officers, sheriff's deputies and firefighters across Androscoggin County may narrow Monday to one.

Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Bill Murray, a third-grade teacher at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn, gathers pieces of broken up Styrofoam trays from two of his students.

Jay police say an elderly man in town had more than $75,000 taken from him by a person who lived with him for a year and a half.

One thing Lewiston and Auburn could - and should - do together would be increasing their meager recycling rates.

An Auburn company has received the nod for the $10.5 million Mallett School building construction project.

If you love children and you can spare some time to help children, you can become a child care substitute in the Biddeford, Portland and Auburn, Maine area! St.

Auburn, Maine a ' One year ago President Obama signed into law the trillion dollar stimulus package.

How hard can it be to pick up after your dog? It's terrific to see so many people using the recreation trail along Auburn's Whitman Spring Road, where it's sometimes tough to find a place to park on the North Auburn Road side.

Organizers of a rock festival scheduled for Independence Day weekend in Oxford announced more acts for the lineup Friday, including a Frank Zappa tribute band and a group with former members of the Jefferson Airplane/Starship. But it's the headlining act, Furthur, that has music fans buzzing about the Nateva Music & Camping Festival, scheduled July ...

After countless political letters, phone calls, petitions and pleas, Jerry DeWitt stumbled Thursday as he tried to describe a celebration that seemed to give him all he wanted.

AUBURN — A Westbrook woman who embezzled nearly $162,000 from a local bank and spent $18,000 of it on a gambling trip has asked a judge to change her conditions of probation so she can get a job.