LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum on Thursday will feature a panel discussion titled “Innovations in Housing.” It will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Panelists include Amy Cullen, development officer for the Szanton Co.; Cullen Ryan, executive director of Community Housing of Maine; Craig Saddlemire, […]
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Affordable housing units break ground in Auburn
Sharon Philbrook Bergeron, right, president of the Auburn Housing Development Corp., talks with Joan Lynch and her son, Kevin Lynch, during the groundbreaking for 62 Spring St., a multi-unit housing development in Auburn, on Thursday. Joan and Kevin Lynch sold the property where their Dillingham & Son Funeral Home once stood to get the subsidized […]
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Disabled marijuana cultivators face eviction from Lewiston apartment
LEWISTON — In a bedroom of her Healy Terrace apartment, 65-year-old Susan Deschene created an elaborate growing room for three carefully cultivated marijuana plants in containers filled with ground-up coconut husks. For the pain-racked family and child counselor — who uses a wheelchair and whose health has kept her from working for a decade — […]
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Lewiston cracking down on unsafe housing: ‘We’ve been very aggressive’
More inspectors. More enforcement. More court time. More demolitions. Lewiston is cracking down on unsafe housing like never before, angering some landlords and pleasing others. LEWISTON — Rick Lockwood, a Lewiston landlord who at one time controlled more than 10 buildings in the downtown, wants out of the city. He believes he’s being targeted by […]
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Housing stipend for Congress? Here's a better way
Does anyone pity the poor congressman? He spends much of his life on the road, eating rubber chicken or repugnant local specialties, in between making a few speeches and shaking a whole lot of hands. And when he comes off the road, he generally does not go home to whatever fair district where he once […]
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Lewiston affordable housing opens
LEWISTON — Just about four years ago, Craig Saddlemire was one of dozens of people looking on in horror as a series of fires destroyed five buildings between Pierce and Bartlett streets. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for the revamped Pierce Place complex, which features 29 new units of affordable housing along with 33 renovated […]
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Getting the lead out, poison prevention efforts expanding
LEWISTON — Shilo Mathieu is on the front lines in America’s decades-long struggle to protect children from lead poisoning. And what she’s been seeing recently in this city known for its lead paint problem is both heartening and foreboding. Mathieu is a family nurse practitioner at Lewiston’s downtown B Street Clinic, which serves the city’s […]
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Legislative committee says yes to Section 8 guns
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Thursday voted 7-6 in favor of a bill that would allow tenants who live in public housing or who receive a federal Section 8 housing voucher to keep guns in their apartments. The final vote came two days after the panel split 4-4 Tuesday on […]
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Bill to allow guns in Section 8 properties hits stalemate
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on Tuesday continued their debate over the best way to balance the rights of landlords with those of tenants who are receiving public housing subsidies and want to keep firearms. A new proposal offered by Sen. Andre Cushing, R-Hampden, would allow landlords who own and live in multiunit properties with four apartments […]
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Paul LePage, MSHA to discuss housing bonds
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage will meet with Maine State Housing Authority officials about the fate of bonds for senior housing projects. Voters signed off on the $15 million in November. Maine State Housing Authority board chairman Peter Anastos sent a letter to LePage on Feb. 16 asking if the Republican governor intends to […]