Maine law requires that sheriffs must have at least two years of supervisory experience in law enforcement or corrections to qualify for the job.

New Hampshire-based Mascoma Bank and Maine-based Androscoggin Bank will combine their parent companies into a new mutual holding company. “Scale in banking matters,” Mascoma CEO Clay Adams said.

Neil Kiely, named Thursday by Androscoggin Bank to succeed Paul Andersen as president and later as CEO, plans to switch gears from internal improvements at the Lewiston-based community bank to ...

“Androscoggin,” the name of Lewiston’s river and county, is the contemporary word describing a Native American tribe that lived in New Hampshire, Maine, and southern Quebec. The tribe was likely ...

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The result will be a single mutual holding company, to be called ClearNorth Financial Mutual Holding Co. The banks themselves will continue to operate under their own names, brands, charters and ...

The merger could increase efficiency, reduce costs and give the county sheriff's department a future on Center Street in ...

Androscoggin Sheriff Eric Samson is challenging the candidacy of Kevin Nichols, saying the Turner man doesn’t have the supervisory experience required by law to face Samson on the ballot in November.

The Androscoggin River flows nearly 170 miles, beginning in New Hampshire and continuing through Maine before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. In the 1960s, it was considered one of the most polluted ...