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Lewiston: First Somali elected to school committee as write-in candidate

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Here is the news from the Lewiston Sun-Journal via Hiiraan online: LEWISTON — A School Committee write-in candidate picked up 10 votes in a ballot recount Thursday, making him the city’s first African immigrant to be elected to public office. Jama Mohamed will represent Ward 5, which comprises the downtown. […..] Serving on the School … Continue reading Lewiston: First Somali elected to school committee as write-in candidate

Lewiston, ME: Somali teen released to ‘residential facility’ over District Attorney objections

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Back in April and May there were several arson fires in Lewiston, ME.   A Somali boy is charged in one of those fires (see our earlier posts, here and here), now that boy is being released from a juvenile detention facility, but the District Attorney, earlier this week objected to the judge’s decision citing the … Continue reading Lewiston, ME: Somali teen released to ‘residential facility’ over District Attorney objections

Federal officials visit refugee-overloaded Lewiston, ME: we feel your pain, but isn’t much we can do

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This is a bit of old news from January that I just came across today.  I hadn’t seen it, so I figured you might not have either. Seems that head honchos from the US State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement traveled to Maine (and elsewhere) to calm the locals. But, how many times … Continue reading Federal officials visit refugee-overloaded Lewiston, ME: we feel your pain, but isn’t much we can do

More on the Lewiston Maine arson fires, one boy named, Somali boy not named

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Update May 11th:  Two white thugs arrested in third fire, thanks to a reader, here. I didn’t read all the stories involving the arson fires in Lewiston, the Little Mogadishu of the Northeast, and to complicate matters there has been a third fire earlier this week in another apartment building that has the city rattled, … Continue reading More on the Lewiston Maine arson fires, one boy named, Somali boy not named