LISBON — The town picked up three honors at the 10th annual Downtown Achievement Awards on June 4 in Augusta.

The program was presented by the Maine Development Foundation’s Downtown Center and held during the Revitalizing Maine Communities conference.

The Downtown Achievement Award for Outstanding Public/Private Partnership went to Maurice Bonneau’s Sausage Kitchen on Main Street in Lisbon Falls. According to judges, the project “is the epitome of downtown revitalization and utilizing an empty Main Street building to create manufacturing jobs and retail all in one.”

The Sausage Kitchen is a family-owned business that has produced and distributed premium, all-natural products since 1995. In 2008, it decided to expand and approached the town, which jumped in with an offer of the recently vacated former Post Office downtown.

The Downtown Achievement Award for Outstanding Public Official was awarded to Gina Mason, Lisbon town councilor and a member of the Downtown Revitalization Committee.

Judges said, “Gina really ‘gets it.’ She has been a huge supporter of the downtown revitalization efforts from the beginning and continues to be very active with several committees. She is the voice of downtown on the Town Council, and serves in one way or another on every committee.”

And the Downtown Achievement Award for Outstanding Maine Downtown Network Community was awarded to the Lisbon Downtown Revitalization Committee.

According to award officials, “This is a new program launched in 2009 to work with communities beginning to explore the Main Street approach to downtown revitalization. Seven communities were named to the Class of 2009: Augusta, Norway, Farmington, Bucksport, Millinocket, Presque Isle and Lisbon.

Lisbon was honored for its efforts in utilizing the Downtown Network program to actively engage and organize community leaders into four committees, according to officials.

“The Downtown Revitalization Committee was responsible for conducting several community visioning sessions to get input from the citizens and businesses and to collect data on economic development, municipal services and infrastructure, education/cultural and public services, recreation and parks, and housing, agriculture and land use. This information was used to create specific work plans that have been presented to the Council for review and direction.

“The bottom line is, Lisbon — and specifically Lisbon Falls — has strengthened their volunteer base to begin fundraising efforts and is forming a nonprofit to better position them to apply for full Main Street Maine designation in the future,” officials said.

The Maine Downtown Center serves as the statewide coordinator for the National Main Street Program in Maine. The center is a program of the Maine Development Foundation, a 31-year-old private, nonprofit membership organization, whose mission is to empower leaders, strengthen communities and guide public policy.