YMCA announcement boosts optimism for mill’s revitalization LEWISTON — Developer Tom Platz would like firm commitments to fill more than half of Bates Mill No. 5 by this summer in order to move ahead ...

In 2015, following the 50th anniversary of the Phantom Punch, Charlie Hewitt and Tom Platz started kicking the idea around. That punch was no phantom to Platz. He was there, a seventh-grader watching ...

“When Ali stood over Sonny Liston yelling ‘Get up and fight,’ he wasn’t just talking to his opponent,” Gov. Janet Mills said at the unveiling of the Muhammad Ali statue in Lewiston.