New Auburn tree picked for city's Christmas decoration

Good riddance to a butt-ugly tree.

How about replacing it with some nice flowering crabapple trees or some other ornamental tree?

Read the article over a few more times.. do you see the part where it says the tree is TOO big to decorate and its outgrown its base and its not healthy anymore.. oh and then there is the part where they are going to replace that tree with a healthy smaller tree so it can grow into a nice Christmas tree over the years.... wow lets all get worked up over a tree getting cut down...

I'm Sorry, I don't care if it's Diseased or not. That tree has been there since I was a kid! And, I'm not even from Lewiston orginally. I think if it was cared for, it could be saved. Instead the City would rather cut it down to covered in Lights for one year, instead of being there for Generation after generation to enjoy in the future.

Just like the City of Lewiston did Many Years ago when they cut the tree on Main Street in Lewiston across from the Former Peck's Building. It's like Tradition Means nothing to No One anymore.

Talk about changing the area? OH PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! We are Destroying what has been here forever to make room for new and wonder why people don't want to come to the twin cities and go elsewheres! Get A Clue Auburn and Lewiston!

More trees should be planted to hide what a monstrosity the Vincent Block has become. I'm still in shock at how awful the final outcome is. If that's the best the City can do for the gateway to New Auburn, I don't have much faith in what will replace that tree. This is symptomatic of a much larger problem. Auburn has no guiding vision, despite endless master plans, because nobody has the courage or conviction to see anything through. As each banal project comes to fruition, the essence of what Auburn was is forever lost.

READ THE ARTICLE PEOPLE!!!

"It's getting to the point now that it's getting hard to decorate," Hersom said. "It's too tall, outgrowing its base, and it's not all that healthy."

This is so typical of the way this City operates these days! No one has a clue and everyone is out for themselves Hey Ray Berube maybe we should cut down a tree in your yard and use that one to replace this one. That was a landmark in downtown New Auburn. Let's see if you can make up for it with a nice little park area, maybe the councilor can get CDBG money to build the park rather than taxpayer money! I challenge you to step to the plate! do something right for a change.

What a shame. Has the arborist looked at this tree to see if it can be brought back to health?

Do you folks read the entire article?

' it's not all that healthy.'
' The tree... will be replaced. '

If it isn't healthy it will be cut down soon anyway. Now it can serve a purpose after cutting it down before it meets the chipper. It will be replaced with a smaller tree somewhere else. That is good planning in my book.

This is the first time I have hard of a city looking mong its landscaping trees for an annual Christmas Tree that will be cut and moved to another location. Cities are generally looking to preserve the trees they have not cut them down to use frivolously for a few weeks of ornamentation. Most cities go to a Christmas Tree Farm and purchase a tree or a farm donates one. Thiis just does not fit in with the dont cut a tree for a cell phone tower, wind mill, Plumb Creek, heat a home or have jobs mentality of any kind of Maine.

A spokesperson from city hall said that "New Auburn should not have its own tree."

Gee, maybe this this will give the city something else to write about in its weekly TCT column.

RAY BERUBE:"I'm all in favor of cutting it down."?? Who are you representing by that statement,yourself,or your constituents? You city councilors use the word "I " a lot for people that are suppose to be representing others. Do "all"your constituents want that tree moved?Have you even polled your constituents on this issue? You're "all in" alright,all into your own agenda. Yanking the little kids Christmas tree down right before Christmas.The Grinch has got nothing on you.

Hiding the Vincent building? That whole area is an eye sore,and will look even worse without that tree.The city council has ignored that part of town compared to the money that's been invested in "old" Auburn. With the exception of that ugly painted wall across from roopers that costed the taxpayers thousands,the council has done nothing to beautify that area,now they want to cut down the only landscaping in that area. That tree gave so many little kids in that area a beautiful christmas for 30 years,and now the council wants to replace it with a stick.

WTF That tree has been there for people to enjoy for a long time. Why not leave it and decorate it in place or go into the forest and pick that tree no one will see untill it arrives in town and brings smiles to all. What a great idea cut down all the trees in the city WOW.