A customer reaches for a garlic bulb in Mogadishu Store in Lewiston, Maine. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative) Like many Somalis in Lewiston, Abasheikh and her family fled the ...

On Tuesday, Khalid, 23, became the first Somali-American elected to the city council of Lewiston, Maine, winning nearly 70% of the vote. She was one in a number of historic wins for local ...

Maine is one of the whitest states in the ... Practically everyone in Lewiston credits the Somalis' discovery of their town with much of its newfound success. "It's been an absolute blessing ...

All told, about 10,000 Somalis lives in Portland and Lewiston, Maine’s largest cities. The Somali Community Center of Maine said the Republican presidential candidate’s remarks were a setback ...

She had spent the past six months knocking on hundreds of doors in Lewiston, Maine, the city where she arrived as a refugee more than a decade earlier, and where she hoped to be the first Somali ...

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — Six-foot stalks of corn crowd ... estimated that the unemployment rate among Somalis in Lewiston is only slightly higher than the state rate of 4.7 percent.

A customer reaches for a garlic bulb in Mogadishu Store in Lewiston, Maine, on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative) Like many Somalis in Lewiston ...

Lewiston saw a rise in Somali families moving in, News Center Maine reported. Somali refugees saw hope in reviving the former bustling industrial city that by this point had many abandoned homes ...

The student was suspended and the Maine attorney general looked into whether the prank represented a hate crime. Ultimately, no charges were filed. Haaruan Sheekhey, a 27-year-old Somali who moved to ...

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With a Lewiston Sun Journal subscription ... to a state House seat that will make her the first Somali-American lawmaker in Augusta. “Maine should be celebrating it,” Abdi said, because ...

Voters gave Democrats control of both chambers of the Maine Legislature for another two years — and made history by electing two Somali Americans ... Mana Abdi, of Lewiston, was unopposed ...