The Lewiston nonprofit Kaydenz Kitchen plans to open the warming center at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
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Auburn to hold special meeting Monday to amend its funding for Lewiston warming center
While Auburn has yet to approve the change, Fatuma Hussein, executive director of the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, said her organization notified both cities Friday that it has withdrawn its participation in the warming center project.
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Lewiston council selects different operator for Calvary church warming center
Councilors selected the nonprofit Kaydenz Kitchen in Lewiston to operate the center at Calvary United Methodist Church, a day after Auburn officials voted to fund the proposal by Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, also in Lewiston.
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Lewiston, Auburn teaming up to fund warming center at Calvary United Methodist Church
If approved by Lewiston councilors Tuesday, the center would begin operations this week and run until early April.
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Warming shelters take in hundreds as temperatures drop in southern Maine
MaineHousing gave out $1.4 million in grants to open overnight warming shelters. Many are filling up every night – and some are running out of money.
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No major encampments are left in Portland. So what’s next for the city’s homelessness task force?
The Encampment Crisis Response Team was formed to respond to an acute encampment crisis. Now that those camps are gone the future of the group is in limbo.
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Supreme Court to review restrictions on homeless encampments
The justices will review a lower court decision that declared it unconstitutional to enforce anti-camping laws against homeless individuals when they have nowhere else to sleep.
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Portland clears Harbor View encampment despite protest
The city cleared its largest remaining homeless encampment Tuesday morning. City staff have said there are enough beds at the shelter for those living at the camp.
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Portland again postpones Harbor View encampment sweep
The city decided to delay clearing the encampment until Tuesday, when it also will clear a smaller encampment on Douglas Street.
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Portland postpones Harbor View homeless encampment sweep
The city was scheduled to clear the encampment Tuesday morning, but after a 7-2 vote from the City Council on Monday night, staff decided to delay the sweep until Dec. 28.