Cheers and jeers from around the news: Cheers to the Lewiston City Council, for supporting the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay's efforts to improve the Clean Water Act classification of the Androscoggin River from Durham to Brunswick.

By Scott Taylor LEWISTON - Councilors will back an effort to get state environmental protection officials to recognize water quality improvements in the Androscoggin River.

The Sun Journal editorial opposing legal protection for Atlantic salmon in the Androscoggin River (Sept. 8) does a great disservice to the people of the Androscoggin River valley.

By Terry Karkos RUMFORD - Concerns about buildings deemed dangerous or public nuisances drove selectmen to schedule a public hearing for 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18.

For a long while, our displeasure at the second-class treatment of the Androscoggin River, versus the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers, regarding the restoration of the river's habitat, has been apparent.