AVCOG Recovery Hub Grant Program focuses on businesses that received little or no government assistance.
Androscoggin County
Androscoggin County Disaster Relief Center opens at Lewiston Armory
The center will offer help applying for economic aid related to damage from the Dec. 18 storm.
FEMA teams help western, central Maine residents register for disaster relief from Dec. 18 storm
Flooding from the Dec. 18 storm and power outages amounted to some $20 million in damages, according to reports from residents, businesses, municipalities and counties.
Gov. Mills formally requests federal disaster declaration for Maine’s December storm damage
Ten counties in central and western Maine sustained more than $20 million in public infrastructure damage when a powerful storm on Dec. 18 brought historic flooding and widespread power outages to the state.
Western Maine spared serious weather as southern Maine floods
Franklin and Oxford counties reported just under Saturday’s low estimate of 4 inches of snowfall, and mostly less than an inch of rain while parts of southern and coastal Maine took a beating from the high winds, high tide and heavy rains.
Heavy wet snow, rain falls on western Maine as promised
The overnight storm left lots of heavy, wet snow around Lewiston and Auburn and even more in some stretches of Oxford and Franklin counties.
Jay board gives support for $30 million Maine trail bond
The Maine trails bond would be dispersed in grant form to nonprofits, municipalities and other divisions of government to strengthen communities, the economy and the quality of life, according to Natural Resources Council of Maine.
Turner, county, state and federal officials assess damage from Dec. 18 storm
Town officials met with federal, state and county emergency management officials Wednesday to discuss the damage.
Androscoggin County’s DA’s office must move
The District Attorney’s office at 55 Lisbon St. in Lewiston is being purchased by the state to expand space for 8th District Court next door.
State asks for continued damage reports from Dec. 18 storm
County, state and federal emergency management agencies are asking residents, businesses, nonprofits and agricultural businesses to continue reporting damage assessments from the wind and rainstorm Dec. 18.