As much as Auburn’s Planning Board and mayor would like to wave a magic scepter over swaths of city property and deem them a new zone, it can’t be done that easily. Many of these properties, such as in the Lake Street School area, have restrictions put in place by developers. Prudential Investment Company was […]

As a Lewiston city councilor and council president from 1985-1995, I was taken back by what I read in the Lewiston Sun Journal on Feb. 18 about the mayor’s appointment to the Planning Board (“Lewiston council votes down mayor’s pick for Planning Board“). I don’t ever remember the City Council not confirming a mayor’s appointment […]