LEWISTON — After five months of silence, the Cavalier Bingo Hall is back in business.

The four-day-a-week bingo operation on Lisbon Street closed abruptly June 1 when hall manager Richard Laliberte locked the door and posted a sign saying “bingo cancelled.”

The hall is reopening Friday under the management of Brenda Gurney, who has 19 years’ experience in running local bingo games.

Gurney, who lives in Auburn, closed her Pleasant Street Bingo Hall in Lewiston in late September after 17 years, in favor of the Cavalier site. She said the latter is bigger and better suited to the so-called super games that can draw as many as 250 people.

“I’m so excited about this place,” she said. “It’s big and beautiful.”

Gurney will host games two days a week: Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Doors will open at 3 p.m. on game days, Gurney said, so people can come in and eat, play cards and socialize before bingo starts.

Gurney said her gaming format will seem similar to people who frequented Cavalier during Laliberte’s management, including super bingo games on occasional Sundays.

Laliberte will participate during the super games, Gurney said, playing the piano and singing as he did when he managed the place.

“It’s like a party on those supers,” she said. “They even get up and dance.”

Laliberte’s Cavalier Towne and Country Club was incorporated in 1959, and he began offering bingo games in 1994. He closed his Promenade Mall hall in June, Laliberte said, because he had not been feeling well and needed a break. At the time, his license was subject to a pending administrative hearing by the Maine State Police, which issues bingo licenses and regulates gaming, because of some discrepancies with the club’s nonprofit status.

According to Laliberte, he and his longtime partner, Linda Verrill, came under scrutiny because they had been paying federal and state taxes on corporate income, in conflict with their nonprofit corporate status.

Under Maine’s Charitable Gaming Laws, organizations issued licenses for games of chance — including bingo — are not permitted to pay proceeds from any games to “provide salaries, wages or other remuneration” to members, officers or employees of the corporation.

Laliberte and Verrill earned their living from the games and paid taxes on that income; Laliberte served as the corporation’s registered agent, its treasurer and manager of the weekly games, and Verrill was the corporation’s secretary.

This week, state police Lt. David Bowler said Laliberte “ceased bingo operations” on his own accord without a hearing but retained his commercial bingo hall license. That license “allows him to rent the space to other organizations licensed to conduct bingo,” Bowler said. That includes Gurney’s operation.