News & Press Releases
2010 Annual Dinner: “L-A Tonight Show!”
The Growth Council’s Annual Dinner & Business Forum will have a unique format this year: a Tonight Show-styled event complete with host, special guests, musical entertainment, and commercial breaks which will feature sponsor messages. The event will be held on Thursday, May 13, at the Ramada Conference Center in Lewiston.
As is an annual tradition, the [...]
Registration Open for June 10 B to B Show
The Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council has announced the date of this year’s Androscoggin Business to Business Trade Show with the theme, “Show 2010: Launching a New Decade.”
This year’s show will be held Thursday, June 10, at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston. Considered by many businesses to be the year’s most significant networking event for [...]
L-A Railroad Company to Receive $200,000 in Recovery Funds
(BANGOR) – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the selection of 44 recipients – including the Lewiston-Auburn Railroad Company — for more than $4 million in grants to start or expand businesses in rural communities. Through Recovery Act funding, businesses will be able to access critical capital that will help with start-up and working capital [...]
Mainebiz features cover story on FTZ
(LEWISTON) — In its November 16 issue, Mainebiz featured a cover story on the Foreign Trade Zone and its importance in establishing the area as a distribution and logistics hub. The article ran as part of the publication’s annual focus on Lewiston-Auburn.
The story described the success that the Growth Council recently experienced in activating the [...]
Local Companies Get Approval to Use FTZ
(LEWISTON) — Two Auburn-based companies, LynxUS and Safe Handling, Inc., recently received approval from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to be activated users of Auburn’s General Purpose Foreign Trade Zone 263.
The federal approval means that both companies are allowed designated space in their warehouse operations to accommodate clients who wish to store imported materials or [...]
Citizens Commission Releases Report On Joint Services
The Citizens Commission on Lewiston-Auburn Cooperation approved and released its final report summarizing its work at a meeting on August 27, 2009. The Commission has been working since November of 2006 on finding ways for both cities of Lewiston and Auburn to “implement combining municipal services to save taxpayers money and to improve services.”
Areas ranging [...]
Lewiston to Host Maine Democratic Party Convention
The Maine Democratic Party has selected the City of Lewiston’s Androscoggin Bank Colisee as the site of the 2009 Maine Democratic Convention, slated for May 21-22, 2010.
The Colisee, formerly the Central Maine Civic Center, has undergone substantial renovations over the past several years, and now attracts a number of special events in addition to serving [...]
Lufthansa’s Labor of Love
Restoring Some Really Old Junkers
Antique Aircraft Are a Company Sideline; A Salvage Mission to Auburn, Maine
By DANIEL MICHAELS (Wall Street Journal, Original Article)
June 16, 2008; Page A1
HAMBURG, Germany — After inspecting the latest addition to Lufthansa’s fleet, veteran airplane mechanic Jürgen Rohwer braced himself for hard work ahead.
“This is the most complicated aircraft we could [...]
