Auburn’s Planning Board has met twice to consider rezoning 1,687 acres of Auburn’s Urban Residential zone to one called Traditional Neighborhood Development District (T-4.2). The proposal increases the allowable housing density in the area by a factor of eight, allows a much wider range of commercial development, relaxes parking restrictions, and changes the character of […]

At the March 15 Lewiston City Council meeting, the recent School Committee vote around the Pledge of Allegiance was brought up. To be clear, the School Committee vote was about whether students needed a parent’s note to abstain from the pledge, nothing more. It is already part of Maine statutes that students do not have […]

Those of us who are retired and on fixed incomes face exceptional hardship when prices skyrocket, particularly with gas and food, as is happening now. When income is fixed, it’s difficult to absorb these rising prices. Retirees are facing prices like we’ve never seen in our lives. I don’t remember it being this bad in […]

I have known Peggy Rotundo for 20 years and have always admired and respected her. She is a mover and a shaker, and she gets things done. The Franco Center is a perfect example of that. In 2000, when the center was founded, she played a major role in getting $1 million from the state […]

I am writing about the well-meaning L&A Veterans Council’s suggestion to add yet another surplus vehicle (a tank) to the Veterans Memorial Park (“Veterans Council wants to add tank to Lewiston park,” March 15). As a 32-year Army veteran who rose up the ranks from private to retire as a major, I am 100% pro-military. […]